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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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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.
Charlotte Gordon • Romantic Outlaws
when men are guided by ambition, not love, and by fame, not family, then women and children pay the price.