Mary Robinson — a remark

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“In order that this letter may be clearly understood, I shall proceed to prove my assertion in the strongest, but most undecorated language. I shall remind my enlightened country-women that they are not the mere appendages of domestic life, but the partners, the equal associates of man.”

Asserting women's intellectual equality against custom and prejudice · Essay, A Letter to the Women of England on the Injustice of Mental Subordination, 1799

About Mary Robinson

Mary Robinson

27 November 1757–26 December 1800

Mary Robinson, born Mary Darby on 27 November 1757 and dead on 26 December 1800, was one of the most conspicuous and variously gifted women of late Georgian Britain. In her forty-three years she became, successively and often simultaneously, a schoolgirl poet, an unhappy wife, a debtor’s-prison inmate, a successful…

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