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How three 18th century ‘deviant mothers’ defied social norms in their novel writing

By Aditi Upmanyu, PhD candidate in English Literature, University of Oxford
The onset of the French Revolution, at the end of the 18th century, had a seismic impact on British thinking. Ideas of the nation were being hardened through xenophobia, an unquestioned reverence for institutional authority and a vocabulary of English “manliness” and “chivalry”. The publication of philosopher Edmund Burke’s Reflections…The Conversation


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