… them with wit, or with softness, or very good sense. Madame Geoffrin, of whom you have heard much, is an extraordinary woman, with more commo n sense than I almost ever met with. Great quickness in discovering characters, penetration in …
… of a wife happy in that point – in your public character. [...] I cannot but reflect with indignation how much ‘tis in a woman’s power to distress a brave or learned man amongst his own society and friends, at his table and round his domestic … them during the past Summers who have now suffer’d & been put to death on the Scaffold. A Duchesse de Biron, a charming Woman: a Comtesse the Bouflers, la Comtesse Emilie de Bouflers, sa belle Fille, & then a whole Family of Montboisier who …
Bluestockings | Conversation | Correspondence | Politics | Women
… the two Female Tatlers 15 and the Parrot (1728) by Mrs Prattle. The latter, who declared ‘Scandal is the woman’s weapon’ 16 and vindicated women’s right to write scathing political satires against Walpole’s government clearly …