The Duchess of Devonshire's Gossip Guide to the 18th Century: Quotables

Monday, July 20, 2009

"Hapless woman! What a fate is thine!"

-Mary Wollstonecraft

Polonaise said...: What woman? What fate? The suspense is killing me!; July 20, 2009 at 3:49 PM
Heather Carroll said...: Her own daughter! Mary was lamenting the state of the modern woman as represented in her own offspring; July 20, 2009 at 3:56 PM
Polonaise said...: I think I have to go over my history, because I thought she died before her daughters were grown. It's not the suspense that's killing me now, it's the shame! Off to the bookshelf...slink....; July 20, 2009 at 4:26 PM
Heather Carroll said...: Well I think she had written it when her first daughter was still a child (brain fart on the date) and she died shortly after Mary Shelley was born.; July 20, 2009 at 5:24 PM
Lauren R said...: Fabulous late 18th c. portrait! I love the simplicity of this image. Thanks for posting!; July 20, 2009 at 10:38 PM