Jane Austen (1775–1817), British novelist. Anne Elliot in Persuasion, ch. 23 (1818).Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Quotation by Jane Austen
''Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove any thing.''
Jane Austen (1775–1817), British novelist. Anne Elliot in Persuasion, ch. 23 (1818).
Jane Austen (1775–1817), British novelist. Anne Elliot in Persuasion, ch. 23 (1818).
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What you have quoted is very true - lots of feminists have reflected on this point in the past 60 years. Some have mentioned that history is really HIS-tory and that women need to write their own stories.
ReplyDeleteLolx...'HIS-tory'...new vocab... :)
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