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She had moved from exploring the creative power of humankind—a favorite theme of Shelley and Byron—to plumbing the depths of human nature.
Charlotte Gordon • Romantic Outlaws
Interestingly, despite the importance of her viewpoint, Margaret appears in the story only indirectly, through the letters of her brother—a structural echo of the role most women were forced to play in the lives of men, one step removed, distanced from the action.
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Romanticism, a literary movement that she would be one of the first to promote in England: the elevation of emotion over reason, passion over logic, spontaneity over restraint, and originality over tradition.
Charlotte Gordon • Romantic Outlaws
Rape was an occupational hazard of being a governess.
Charlotte Gordon • Romantic Outlaws
The Clairmonts resented Godwinian condescension; the Godwins despised Clairmont histrionics.
Charlotte Gordon • Romantic Outlaws
For all that they had been trained to protest injustice, they failed to notice the chains that bound their mothers, daughters, and wives.
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dread lest she should be forced to sacrifice her heart to her principles, or principles to her heart.