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A Revolution of Feeling
A Revolution of Feeling: The Decade That Forged the Modern Mind | Rachel Hewitt
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I do love a penguin!
(Still trying to sneak read bits of the tagged book, but struggling)

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At heart, Coleridge and Southey were both conservative about gender roles and sensuality, and shared an essentialist view of female attributes in which women's 'natural ' sphere was the domestic, and emancipation of women's desires would only free them to better occupy this role.

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...where even disappointments and failures were necessary steps.

I don't think I'd get along with Priestley's work!

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The success of the Rights of Man (Thomas Paine).

(The 'acquaintance' sounds a bit jealous to me!)

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