 | Elizabeth Robins Pennell - 1884 - 386 pagine
...exposition of the wrongs which their absence causes. Mary wished, as her Preface sets forth, to exhibit the misery and oppression peculiar to women, that...arise out of the partial laws and customs of society. " Maria," in fact, was to be a forcible proof of the necessity of those social changes which she had... | |
 | Elizabeth Robins Pennell - 1885 - 270 pagine
...exposition of the wrongs which their absence causes. Mary wished, as her Preface set forth, to exhibit the misery and oppression peculiar to women, that...arise out of the partial laws and customs of society. Maria, in fact, was to be a forcible proof of the necessity of those social changes which she had urged... | |
 | Emma Rauschenbusch-Clough - 1898 - 286 pagine
...carried farther. The author's main object, as she says in the fragmentary Preface, was " to exhibit the misery and oppression, peculiar to women, that...arise out of the partial laws and customs of society." This she accomplished. And he who lays bare the festering sores of suffering humanity is also its benefactor.... | |
 | 1914 - 904 pagine
...manners. In many instances I could have made the incidents more dramatic would I have sacrificed my main object, the desire of exhibiting the misery and...arise out of the partial laws and customs of society. In the invention of this story, this view restrained my fancy, and the history ought rather to be considered... | |
 | Peter H. Marshall - 1984 - 518 pagine
...largely autobiographical novel to be entitled The Wrongs of Woman: or, Maria. lts aim is to exhibit 'the misery and oppression, peculiar to women, that arise out of the partial laws and customs of society'.41 The heroine literally becomes a prisoner of her sex and is locked up in a madhouse by a... | |
 | Carole Pateman, Mary Lyndon Shanley - 1991 - 304 pagine
..."ln writing this novel, l have rather endeavoured to pourtray passions than manners . . ." and "my main object, the desire of exhibiting the misery and...that arise out of the partial laws and customs of society."3" She certainly achieves her object. Maria is set in an insane asylum, yet none of its characters... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley - 1993 - 260 pagine
...manners. In many instances I could have made the incidents more dramatic, would I have sacrificed my main object, the desire of exhibiting the misery and...arise out of the partial laws and customs of society. In the invention of the story, this view restrained my fancy and the history ought rather to be considered,... | |
 | Timothy J. Reiss - 1992 - 412 pagine
...them as equal partners in the species called "human." As she wrote in Maria, her aim was to expose "the misery and oppression, peculiar to women, that...arise out of the partial laws and customs of society," and especially out of marriage. In a letter used by Godwin to preface this posthumously published novel... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft - 1994 - 162 pagine
...of the author, in the present instance, to make her story subordinate to a great moral purpose, that "of exhibiting the misery and oppression, peculiar...that arise out of the partial laws and customs of society.—This view restrained her fancy."* It was necessary for her, to place in a striking point... | |
 | Claudia L. Johnson - 2009 - 256 pagine
...of Woman as a dramatization of Rights of Woman, and as far as its negative thesis is concerned—ie, exhibiting "the misery and oppression, peculiar to...arise out of the partial laws and customs of society" (WW 73)—this is the case. 13 But as far as its positive thesis is concerned, The Wrongs of Woman... | |
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I have sacrificed my main object, the desire of exhibiting the misery and oppression, peculiar to women, that arise out of the partial laws and customs of society. 
