even censors can't resist a good read (THE LIBRARY message #1296)

even censors can't resist a good read

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Posted by greg on September 22, 1997 at 22:21:58:

In response to Agnes, written by Susie on September 22, 1997 at 17:23:54

... Jane aspiring to a greater liberty, a proto -feminist:

] "Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. It is thoughtless to condemn them , or laugh at them, if they seek to do more or learn more than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex."

] Radical stuff for 1847, eh?

]

i'm glad we're getting beyond the romance and into this other stuff(i'm just getting warmed-up): of course much has been written(some comments by bronte herself) about the controversy the book caused. i'd imagine that the men reading the manuscript were also shocked by the frank way she showed the dark underbelly of child abuse. but although ch. 1 was pretty bloody(and even shocked me), i'll bet they couldn't put the book down after that!

REPLIES:

Give us your best shot Erin 00:31:55 9/25/97 (3)
- Erin! you made it here! (NFM) Helen 09:29:17 9/25/97 (2)
  - Yes, but... Erin 13:58:50 9/25/97 (1)
    - See you then Helen 06:15:27 9/26/97 (0)

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