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Woman in the Nineteenth Century

Introduction 

Word Count: 623    |    Released on: 17/11/2017

thinkers and agitators of our time, The legislators, so called,-those who ultimately enact into statutes what the really governing class (to wit, the thinkers) have originated, mature

hat then? I am still subject to your laws. Why am I not entitled, as a rational human being, to a voice in shaping them? I have physical needs, and must somehow earn a living. Why should I not be at liberty to earn it in any honest and useful calling?"-the mob's flout is hushed, and the legislator Is struck dumb also. They were already at the end of their scanty resources of logic, and it would be cruel for woman to ask further: "Suppose me a wife, and my husband a drunken prodigal-what am I to do then? May I not earn food for my babes without being expos

nce spoken more fluently, more variously, with a greater affluence of illustration; but none, it is believed, more earnestly or more forcibly. It is due to her memory, as well as to the great and living cause of which she was so eminent and so fearless an advocate, that what she thought and said with regard to the position of her sex and its limitations, should be fully and fairly placed before the

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Woman in the Nineteenth Century
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
“It has been thought desirable that such papers of Margaret Fuller Ossoli as pertained to the condition, sphere and duties of Woman, should be collected and published together.”
1 Preface2 Introduction3 Part 1 Woman in the Nineteenth Century. Preface to Woman in the Nineteenth Century4 Part 2. MISCELLANIES. Aglauron and Laurie5 Part 3. EXTRACTS FROM JOURNALS AND LETTERS