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13 de jun. de 2022 · The 18th century is a significant period for analyzing how women were ill-treated by the male-dominated society. It is an age defined by gender inequality and discrimination. The idea of the superiority of men and their ownership of women made women oppressed victims of the patriarchal society.
Combining intellectual history with literary criticism, Karen O'Brien examines the central importance to the British Enlightenment both of women writers and of women as a subject of enquiry.
During the eighteenth century female authors became increasingly numerous and industrious; while as readers, writes Robert Halsband, thanks to the spread of the new circulating libraries, women began to form ‘a significant sector’ of the literary public.
Within the emergent class society of eighteenth-century Britain, to belong to the middle and to be female was to be in a position of agency and inXuence in the formation of social relations.
18 de mar. de 2017 · Here are some of the most powerful women of the 18th century (some born earlier than 1700, but important after), listed chronologically. In the 18th century, it was still true that most royal succession and most power was in the hands of men.
Debate about women and politics raged throughout the eighteenth century: some thought women unsuited for politics due to differences in male and female intellect egs Mary Berry, Lady Charlotte Bury and Countess Granville who noted Lady Jersey's unfeminine actions.
Of the several hundred items in Geoffrey Tillotson, Paul Fussell and Marshall Waingrow’s compendious Eighteenth-Century English Literature (1969) there are only four poems by women – three by Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, and one short lyric by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.
