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Pastimes : The Literary Sauna (or Tomes in Towels)
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To: Rambi who wrote (398)8/28/2001 11:58:55 AM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) of 466
 
But not all men were like that.
I'm listening to John Adams- and Abigail Adams writes to her husband with a very modern voice. Last night I heard a letter in which she urged her husband not to "forget the ladies" in the new constitution. She said that ladies can be at the mercy of tyrants- that laws are not needed to protect women from good husbands, only from bad- so what could be the harm of curbing the unlimited power of bad men over their wives. I found the letter very interesting. Of course John Adams made a little joke about her views in his next letter, but the fact that she felt she could write such a letter to him, and express such feelings, tells you a good deal.

I liked the accentuating of the post partum situation in the Yellow Wallpaper, btw.
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