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I was the great family embarrassment after all. Wren was hardly my first misstep. Father called them missteps but to me they were legitimate romances. Live and let love.
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― With a Reckless Abandon
― With a Reckless Abandon
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…the rising movement of romanticism, with its characteristic idealism, one that tended toward a black-and-white view of the world based on those ideas, preferred for different reasons that women remain untinged by “masculine” traits of learning. Famous romantic writers such as Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and William Hazlitt criticized the bluestockings. …and Hazlitt declared his 'utter aversion to Bluestockingism … I do not care a fig for any woman that knows even what an author means.'
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― Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist
― Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist
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