Millenium Hall
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In 1750 at the age of twenty-seven Sarah Scott published her first novel, a conventional romance. A year later she left her husband after only a few months of marriage and devoted herself thereafter to writing and to promoting such causes as the creation of secular and separatist female communities. This revolutionary concept was given flesh in Millenium Hall, first published in 1762 and generally thought to be the finest of her six novels. The text may be seen as the manifesto of the 'bluestocking' movement--the protean feminism that arose under eighteenth-century gentry capitalism (originating in 1750, largely under the impetus of Scott's sister Elizabeth Montagu), and that rejected a world which early feminists saw symbolized in the black silk stockings demanded by formal society. It is a comment on Western society as well as on the strengths of Scott's novel that the message of Millenium Hall continues to resonate strongly more than two centuries later.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1551110156
ISBN13:9781551110158
Release Date:October 1995
Publisher:Broadview Press Inc
Length:256 Pages
Weight:0.69 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.5" x 8.4"
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Important Literature
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
Feminism did exist before the 1960s. This novel of 'manners' predates Austen and is a book where female characters are stronger, more independent than any other literature of the time. As an early novel, it can be taxing to read for a modern audience, but it its importance and relative obscurity makes it all the more important for people to discover.
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