Ladies of darwinian Flashcards
cont. female activist on darwin
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, evolutionary theory “provided a new way for women to view the universe and their role in it, and a new language to describe what they saw
science and need for change
H. Waddington argued that ‘science is essentially concerned with subtly relations, and these relations cannot be emphasised unless there is change’.
critic on roles of women in vic
Elizabeth Lee: ‘A young lady was only worth as much as her chastity…Once led astray, she was the fallen woman, and nothing could reconcile that till she died
feminine tissue
why it was that upon this beautiful feminine tissue there was traced such a course pattern as it was doomed to receive”.
tess ancestors are rapists
Doubtless some of Tess D’Urberville’s male ancestors… [had dealt] even more ruthlessly towards peasant girls of their time”.
publisher to hardy
Publisher Edward Arnold wrote to Hardy in November 1889, stating “I know well enough that these tragedies are being played out every day in our midst, but I believe the less publicity they have the better.”
daniels mother
‘perhaps my mother was like this one’
“the fates of women”
girl tragedies
‘the girl tragedies that are going on in the world, hidden, unheeded, as if they were tragedies hedge etc’
Balzac
‘there exists– there have always existed- Social Types just as there are Zoological types” (Balzac, Avant-propos).
dallas on women
‘the life of a woman cannot be described as a life of action” unless they are “painted badly”.
Bathsheba
and triumphs as the female ‘buying and selling farmer’; the figure of a modern business woman, and thus an unidentifiable specimen amongst the ‘girl tragedies’.
final lines of Gwendoline
“I shall live. I shall be better”.
penny b
tess ‘type’ compromised and doomed by her sexuality.
maggie
am i to struggle, and fall, and repent again?
