| 词条 | Eugenia (Lady of Quality) |
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Eugenia was the pseudonym used by an unknown English pamphleteer of the early 18th century, who wrote a work entitled The Female Advocate: Or, a plea for the just liberty of the tender sex, and particularly of married women. Being reflections on a late rude and disingenuous discourse, delivered by Mr. John Sprint, in a sermon at a wedding... at Sherburn... By a Lady of Quality (London, 1700). Sharp riposteThe Female Advocate (another edition is entitled The Female Preacher) was a powerful protofeminist riposte to a sermon by Rev. John Sprint entitled The Bride-Woman's Counsellor (1699).[1] Sprint, who may have been a descendant of the more famous theologian John Sprint (died 1623), had preached the offending sermon at a wedding at Sherborne, Dorset on 11 May 1699.[2]The Female Advocate was addressed to "To the Honourable The Lady W—ley" and published in 1700 by the same firm that had issued The Bride-Woman's Counsellor itself.[3] She signed herself, "Your Ladiship's most obliged and most humble Servant, Eugenia."[4]Unknown identitySome commentators at the time of the publication thought that Eugenia was male. Some readers of Mary Chudleigh, meanwhile, were ascribing the work to her. This seems unlikely, as the Eugenia of The Female Advocate takes a sharp-edged, prose approach, unlike the lightheartedness of Chudleigh's own.[5] Furthermore, Chudleigh's Poems (1703) include praise for Eugenia's "ingenious Pen".[1][3] Eugenia declares at the outset of her work, "If you inquire who I am, I shall only tell you in general, that I am one that never yet came within the Clutches of a Husband; and therefore what I write may be the more favourably interpreted as not coming from a Party concern'd." She knows some Latin and Greek, and knows the world a little. She states that not even in Italy and Spain do men demand of their wives "a Slavery so abject as this [Sprint] would fain persuade us to."[3] References1. ^1 Virginia Blain, Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy: The Feminist Companion to Literature in English. Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present Day (London: Batsford, 1990), p. 346. 2. ^Title page [https://books.google.hu/books/about/The_Bride_woman_s_Counsellor.html?id=tMLPJ-fANfEC&redir_esc=y Retrieved 25 May 2018.] 3. ^1 2 Margaret J. M. Ezell: Introduction to The Poems and Prose of Mary, Lady Chudleigh (1993), p. xxix [https://books.google.hu/books?id=uGQkAe_YuNAC&pg=PR29&lpg=PR29&dq=Eugenia,+the+Lady+of+Quality&source=bl&ots=wLUBWR_a8Y&sig=2-bqrdri75HUKcVseGyZ_gFEdmk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiB7tqKp6HbAhWDDOwKHZO9B94Q6AEIUjAK#v=onepage&q=Eugenia%2C%20the%20Lady%20of%20Quality&f=false Retrieved 25 May 2018.] 4. ^Early English Books [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A32910.0001.001/1:2?rgn=div1;view=fulltext Retrieved 25 May 2018.] 5. ^The Ladies Defense: Or, the Bride-woman's Counsellor Answer'd. A Poem written as a Dialogue... Written by a Lady.[https://books.google.hu/books?id=RK5YAAAAcAAJ&source=gbs_book_similarbooks Retrieved 25 May 2018.] External source
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