Woman in the Nineteenth Century: and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman

Women in the nineteenth century had it hard. That's what Margaret Fuller's book Woman in the Nineteenth Century is all about. Ladies in the days of yore couldn't vote, they couldn't own property in the way that men could, and they were pretty much confined to being housewives for their entire lives. It's this very unsavory state of gender relations that Fuller criticizes in the above passage.

Fuller, of course, was an outspoken women's rights activist. Not only did she write about this stuff...