...liftening to the conyerfation of the enlightened t€ned and judicious ; why mould it not exert its powers, not only for your own entertainment, but for the inftru&ion,...Charlotte, " you know how female writers are looked down-upon. The women fear, and hate ; the men ridicule, and diflike them." t( This may be the cafe...

...exert its powers, not only for your own entertainment, but for the instruction, or innocent amusement of others ?" " Ah ! sir," returned Charlotte, " you...upon. The women fear, and hate; the men ridicule, and dislike them." " This may be the case with the mere mob, who receive every prejudice upon trust," rejoined...

...exert its powers, not only for your own entertainment, but for the instruction, or innocent amusement of others ?" " Ah ! Sir," returned Charlotte, " you...writers are looked down upon. The women fear, and bate; the men ridicule, and dislike them." " This may be the case with the mere mob, who receive every...

...should your mind, cultivated as it has been by education, and improved by listening to the conversation "Ah! Sir," returned Charlotte, "you know how female...upon. The women fear, and hate; the men ridicule, and dislike them." "This may be the case with the mere mob, who receive every prejudice upon trust," rejoined...

...her heroines is encouraged to write both to entertain and to instruct, in spite of her remark that 'you know how female writers are looked down upon. The women fear, and hate; the men ridicule, and dislike them'. 54 Above all Maria Edgeworth in her Letters for Literary Ladies, though she makes the...