"You see, though a man, I use your privilege, and prefer knitting yarn to threshing my brain with a book or the barn-floor with a flail"
— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
George Folliot Hopkins
Date
1800
Metaphor
"You see, though a man, I use your privilege, and prefer knitting yarn to threshing my brain with a book or the barn-floor with a flail"
Metaphor in Context
Rejoice that you are a woman, then, and are at liberty to pursue that which costs least labor and demands most skill. You see, though a man, I use your privilege, and prefer knitting yarn to threshing my brain with a book or the barn-floor with a flail.
(Part II, chapter 2, p. 441)
(Part II, chapter 2, p. 441)
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Reading
Citation
Brown, Charles Brockden. Three Gothic Novels. New York: Library of America,1998.
Date of Entry
07/21/2003
