She lost the last of her family, her grandmother, and inherited her family fortune at 17. In the next year she was married and realized it was a mistake. Her husband took over all rights to her property. Like many women writers in this country, this English woman expressed her frustration and outrage at the injustice.
“Women are forced to lead a life of imbecility, and are blamed for doing so. If they are ignorant they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of whores. As wives they are treated more as servants than companions. Men do not love them: they make use of them, they exploit them, and expect in that way, to make them subject to the law of fidelity.”
She expressed much of the bitterness and frustration felt by countless numbers both here and in England. Fortunately for her, she had the talent to support herself, despite the loss of her fortune to her husband.
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