...exert its powers, 1 not only for your own entertainment, but for the inftru&ion, or innocent amufement of others ?" , " Ah ! Sir," returned Charlotte, "...upon. The women fear, and hate ; the men ridicule, and diffike them." " This rqay be the cafe with the mere mob, who receive every prejudice upon truft,"...

...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....fear, and hate; the men ridicule, and dislike them'. 54 Above all Maria Edgeworth in her Letters for Literary Ladies, though she makes the standard obeisance...