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Politics of Author:
"Jacobin Sympathies"
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"Prose"
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Gender of Author:
"Female"
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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"French Revolution"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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"Romantic"
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Date: 1790, 1794
"How many fine-spun threads of reasoning would my wandering thoughts have broken; and how difficult should I have found it to arrange arguments and inferences in the cells of my brain!"
preview | full record— Williams, Helen Maria (1759-1827)
Date: December 1790
"But it was the poor man with only his native dignity who was thus oppressed – and only metaphysical sophists and cold mathematicians can discern this insubstantial form; it is a work of abstraction – and a gentleman of lively imagination must borrow some drapery from fancy before he can love or ...
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)