Advantages of Good Sense
Eliz. Celest. Misanthropia
Genre: | Letter |
Subjects: | Gender, Disease |
Relates a conversation describing 'women of sense' as self-confident, in which an unamed Duke retorted: 'Oh! intolerable, madam: my dear madam, if you go on defining the animal, you positively will throw the gout into my stomach' (252). | |
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