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[anomalous]

1615

Neither to the best nor yet to the worst, but to the common sort of Women.

Musing with myself, being idle, and having little ease to pass the time withal, and I being in a great choler against some women (I mean more than one); and so in the rough of my fury, taking my pen in hand to beguile the time withal, indeed I might have employed

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[yousaypotato]

have you ever read christine froula's "when eve reads milton?"

[anomalous]

no! that sounds interesting, though. what is it?

[yousaypotato]

it's a writing on paradise lost, it is full of theory and it talks about the "voicing" of eve, i think, and the idea of eve reflecting adam and hierarchy. it's your average feminist piece on it i guess, but i still think it's pretty interesting. and then there are all of these neat writings that i read along with it on how western religion mostly only places restrictions on women after they have sex. a virgin is almost not a woman, it's pretty neat.

[eirelav]

in england we read the responses of a couple of female writers to this piece. unfortunately, i can't really remember their names. maybe rachel speght? what englishes are you in next semester?

[anomalous]

yeah, i definitely used speght in my paper. i was only reading swetnam to see what she was writing against. i find them both weirdly entertaining. i blame dr. barbour for this. (=

i am in: southern american lit, american lit 1860-1900, the american novel, and (for now) victorian issues, but i will probably drop that.

you?