Millenium Hall

Millenium Hall
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Publisher : Broadview Press
Total Pages : 257
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ISBN-10 : 9781460403846
ISBN-13 : 1460403843
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Book Synopsis Millenium Hall by : Sarah Scott

Download or read book Millenium Hall written by Sarah Scott and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 1995-10-03 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1750 at the age of twenty-seven Sarah Scott published her first novel, a conventional romance. A year later she left her husband after only a few months of marriage and devoted herself thereafter to writing and to promoting such causes as the creation of secular and separatist female communities. This revolutionary concept was given flesh in Millenium Hall, first published in 1762 and generally thought to be the finest of her six novels. The text may be seen as the manifesto of the ‘bluestocking’ movement—the protean feminism that arose under eighteenth-century gentry capitalism (originating in 1750, largely under the impetus of Scott’s sister Elizabeth Montagu), and that rejected a world which early feminists saw symbolized in the black silk stockings demanded by formal society. It is a comment on Western society as well as on the strengths of Scott’s novel that the message of Millenium Hall continues to resonate strongly more than two centuries later.


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