A Description of Millenium Hall (Perfect Library) - Softcover

Scott, Sarah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1512109363 ISBN 13: 9781512109368

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Synopsis

"A Description of Millenium Hall" from Sarah Scott. Sarah Scott, english novelist, translator, and social reformer (1720-1795).

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From the Back Cover

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.

About the Author

Gary Kelly is Chair of the Department of English at the University of Keele. His many works include Revolutionary Feminism: The Mind and Career of Mary Wollstonecraft (Macmillan, 1992).

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1512109363
• ISBN 13: 9781512109368
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 154
• Editor: The Perfect Library