The Emigrants: 1793This epistolary novel about British expatriates in Pittsburgh & Kentucky expresses the radical ideas on love, marriage, & divorce associated with the feminist movement. The introduction presents evidence in support of Mary Wollstonecraft's authorship. |
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Page 74
... wish to bring to light their juvenile indifcretions : however , faid he , I will undertake it for you with the great- eft pleasure , and will pledge my reputation as a man of honour that your name fhall never be men- tioned in the ...
... wish to bring to light their juvenile indifcretions : however , faid he , I will undertake it for you with the great- eft pleasure , and will pledge my reputation as a man of honour that your name fhall never be men- tioned in the ...
Page 180
... wishes , by fending the books , & c . as you re- quefted . I am very anxious to hear from you , and have thought it not a little extraordinary , that none of your letters have yet come to hand . I wish this may reach you , before the ...
... wishes , by fending the books , & c . as you re- quefted . I am very anxious to hear from you , and have thought it not a little extraordinary , that none of your letters have yet come to hand . I wish this may reach you , before the ...
Page 314
... wish . And it is one of the moft fingular pleasures of my life , to have it in my power to accompany my wishes with affurances , that your happiness mult be compleat , when you fhall have joined us . We all fhall embrace you with one ...
... wish . And it is one of the moft fingular pleasures of my life , to have it in my power to accompany my wishes with affurances , that your happiness mult be compleat , when you fhall have joined us . We all fhall embrace you with one ...
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