The Fox Woman | |
Auhtor: Abraham Merritt | |
| Language: english Published: 1949 Genres:fiction, fantasy, short storiesDownloads: 477 eBook size: 91Kb Review by O. Brown, July 2005 Rating: (***) Copyright: Public Domain in the U.S. Please check the copyright status in your country. | |
Summary of the Book 'The Fox Woman':
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects written by the eighteenth-century British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft is one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy. In it Wollstonecraft responds to those educational and political theorists of the eighteenth century who did not believe women should have an education. She argues that women ought to have an education commensurate with their position in society claiming that women are essential to the nation because they educate its children and because they could be companions to their husbands rather than mere wives. Instead of viewing women as ornaments to society or property to be traded in marriage Wollstonecraft maintains that they are human beings deserving of the same fundamental rights as men. Wollstonecraft was prompted to write the Rights of Woman after reading Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigords 1791 report to the French National Assembly which stated that women should only receive a domestic education she used her commentary on this specific event to launch a broad attack against sexual double standards and to indict men for encouraging women to indulge in excessive emotion. Wollstonecraft wrote the Rights of Woman hurriedly in order to respond directly to ongoing events she intended to write a more thoughtful second volume but she died before completing it. While Wollstonecraft does call for equality between the sexes in particular areas of life such as morality she does not explicitly state that men and women are equal. Her ambiguous statements regarding the equality of the sexes have since made it difficult to classify Wollstonecraft as a modern feminist particularly since the word and the concept were unavailable to her. Although it is commonly assumed now that the Rights of Woman was unfavourably received this is a modern misconception based on the belief that Wollstonecraft was as reviled during her lifetime as she became after the publication of William Godwins Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1798). The Rights of Woman was actually well-received when it was first published in 1792. One biographer has called it perhaps the most original book of Wollstonecrafts Wollstonecrafts century.
Excerpts from the Book 'The Fox Woman':
... to pass through us! A woman came round one of the bastions. She walked stubbornly, head down, as one who fights against a strong wind???or as one whose will ...
... Tibetan leader whose knife had been the first to cut her husband down. She watched them come, helpless to move, unable even to close her ...
... Meredith saw, or thought she saw, the incredible. Where fox had been, stood now a woman! She was tall, and lithe as a young willow. Jean Meredith could ...
... doors into a garden. Broad steps dropped shallowly to an oval pool around whose sides were lithe willows trailing green tendrils in the blue water, wisterias ...
... She lay back, lazily. Her mind was limpidly clear upon it was reflected all through which she had passed, yet it was tranquil, untroubled, like a ...
... had come a double row of sculptured foxes ran, like Thebes' road of the Sphynxes, half way down to the pool. Over the crest of the mountain crept the ...
... cease until that promise is fulfilled. She considered that, looking at the conical hills. She laughed. They are like great stone hats with brims ...
... the best of their booty. Kenwood said: 'If both you and Martin die before the baby is born, Charles will inherit everything. He's next of kin and the ...
... left her with no emotion. Except that she knew she must bear it, she had no feeling even toward her unborn baby. Once, indeed, she had felt a faint curiosity. ...
... which did not steam and so, she reasoned idly, must be cold. They kept their backs to her, eyes averted. The priest touched her eyes, stroked her flanks, ...
... them, closing their circles as they passed. The four vixens halted, one at each of the font's four sides. They did not sit. They stood with gaze fastened ...
... had given him high place in the Home of Heavenly Anticipations and among its patrons. He was in the most formal of English evening dress, ...
... am sorry I said what I did, Likong. It was childish temper. I apologize. The Chinese bowed, but he did not take the hand the other extended. Nor did ...
... he think I am???to be frightened by such superstitious drivel? He said, in that thin voice with which he spoke when temper was mastering him: What's ...
... had been properly sympathetic and had asked him no embarrassing questions. Both could speak the Mandarin as well as several of the dialects. ...
... The Frenchman had said he thought, somewhat too casually, that if it was desirable to get to the temple without passing through any village within ...
... horses frightened by something they sense but can neither see nor hear. It was as though they had passed out of some perilhaunted jungle into safety. ...
... a curious tingling coolness dart from wrist to shoulder. The black eyes were looking deep into his, and he felt the same tingling coolness in his ...
... try to regain this child before she is sent to you, nor attempt to molest her. After she comes to you???the matter is in other hands than mine. Do you ...
... Merritt Three Lines of Old French About About Merritt: Abraham Merritt (January 20, 1884-August 21, 1943), who published ...