"The mind of a young woman lady should be clear and unsullied, like a sheet of white paper, or her own fairer face"
— Hays, Mary (1760-1843)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson
Date
1796
Metaphor
"The mind of a young woman lady should be clear and unsullied, like a sheet of white paper, or her own fairer face"
Metaphor in Context
The mind of a young woman lady should be clear and unsullied, like a sheet of white paper, or her own fairer face: lines of thinking destroy the dimples of beauty; aping the reason of man, they lose the exquisite, fascinating charm, in which consists their true empire.
(p. 57).
(p. 57).
Categories
Provenance
My own reading
Citation
Only 1 entry in ESTC (1796).
See Memoirs of Emma Courtney. By Mary Hays. 2 vols. (London: Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row, 1796). <Link to ECCO>
Reading Mary Hays, The Memoirs of Emma Courtney. ed. Marilyn L. Brooks (Ontario: Broadview Press, 2000).
See Memoirs of Emma Courtney. By Mary Hays. 2 vols. (London: Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row, 1796). <Link to ECCO>
Reading Mary Hays, The Memoirs of Emma Courtney. ed. Marilyn L. Brooks (Ontario: Broadview Press, 2000).
Theme
Blank Slate
Date of Entry
09/14/2009
