Richard Steele [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… and moral improvement was a good in itself but also for the enjoyment of men, to make her ‘agreeable’ in mind as well as body, for she was ‘created as it were for Ornament’. 11 Men were also encouraged to be agreeable but this consisted of …
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