Monday, July 20, 2009

Quotables

"Hapless woman! What a fate is thine!"


-Mary Wollstonecraft

5 comments:

  1. What woman? What fate? The suspense is killing me!

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  2. Her own daughter! Mary was lamenting the state of the modern woman as represented in her own offspring

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  3. I think I have to go over my history, because I thought she died before her daughters were grown. It's not the suspense that's killing me now, it's the shame! Off to the bookshelf...slink....

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  4. Well I think she had written it when her first daughter was still a child (brain fart on the date) and she died shortly after Mary Shelley was born.

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  5. Fabulous late 18th c. portrait! I love the simplicity of this image. Thanks for posting!

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