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From Victorian study: [Aristocratic attitude to children]
To most aristocrats children were not simply an investment in the future; their upbringing was a major source of pleasure and worry. Childbearing experiences varied; according to a modern study, about one quarter of aristocratic women had an average of nine children, but 15 percent of aristocratic marriages were childless.
Women of the upper classes enjoyed better health generally than their less privileged contemporaries. They rarely expressed any guilt or sense of personal deprivation about their children in the care of nurses.
In the large establishments they had a high managerial function, for example, in the London Season in the years between 1870 and 1900, in which women had enormous power to include or exclude guests.
So, see you next. Bye!
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Hi, ladies!!!
How have you been enjoying this beautiful autumn weather?
The weather was so lovely, but, day in and day out, nothing special happened to me. But a couple of days ago I got an email from the editor of the annual journal of an academic association I belonged to, asking me to write a 4000-letter article. What can I say about it? It was a one in a million opportunity to write an academic article in Japanese. I would not have another chance in my life, and so I decided to write it. The due date is the end of March next year.
I have been reading a documentary about Tokyo Yoikuin, a public social welfare institution in central Tokyo, which is extremely intriguing to me. Frankly speaking, I really want to get into this research in a more serious fashion, spending most of my time, perhaps. But, due to lack of enough time at the moment, I am just enjoying reading it.
But sooner or later, I would like to let you know about three female missionaries who came to Japan for their evangelical duties and eventually helped Japanese Hansen’s disease patients improve their wellbeing. I am well aware that some of you are very familiar with this topic of mine because you came to listen to my speech about them, but still I want to talk about the female missionaries, since this is very important part of Japanese history. Please look forward to hearing great stories about these women from me!!!
Well, it’s almost time for my husband to come home, my precious friends. Night, night…
Hello, ladies!
How nice to hear the good news from you, Plum! The writing in the academic journal is really a good chance and honor, I believe. I am looking to reading your article soon.
By the way, Rosa mentioned about Obama’s attractive speeches. Yes, everybody was charmed by his charisma. He seems to be a very decisive man but very calm. I think he is a great leader of the world. He has never lost his cool however severely his opponents criticized, He has maintained reasonable temper.
On Wednesday, I saw the NHK program, “The time of history moved.” I love this program. This program introduced the Civil Right movement in America lead by Martin Luther King Jr.. Everybody knows his famous historical speech, “I have a dream….” He was killed in 1968, when the we was so deep discrimination against the black people. Nobody could expect that America would choose a black people as a nation’s leader. It took around 40 years. That’s amazing! This is a real American dream, isn’t it. I am very glad to hear that Obama respect the principle of nonresistance of Gandhi in India. I also retaliation with violence could bring nothing except depression, despair and total destruction.
I hope Obama’s poly will go right direction. See you again, my dearest friends. Bye!
Hi Cherry and friends,
Today is Nov. 16, cloudy and sometimes rainy. I feel very tired today.
Yesterday was a wonderful day for me. In the morning, I went to English Salon at Maruzen. Thank you so much for giving me a great chance to join the Talk Show, Plum. It was wonderful and enjoyable. I learned a lot by listening to everyone’s opinions and Mr. Larry Smith’s thoughtful opinions and suggestions for English learners. I also enjoyed his personal story like a movie. He was really nice and friendly.
After the Talk Show, I went to the sushi restaurant, which Cosmos recommended, with Cosmos, Cosmos’s friend and Sunflower. I enjoyed chatting over delicious sushi. Then I went back to Maruzen to buy some boos for my friend’s children and went window-shopping at the underground shopping mall in Sakae.
In the evening, I went to Yasuko Agawa’s jazz concert in Komaki. I was moved by her songs and amused by her talks. When she sang, she always looked elegant and serious, but she entertained people by her comical talk with very natural way. I thought the nice atmosphere might come from her personal good character.
It was a long busy day with lots of fun.
Have a nice day, my precious friends,
Reiko
Dear Cherry and friends,
Hello! How are you?
I became sick Thursday night. It was perhaps because I slept on the train. I had a headache and a little fever on Friday. Feeling a chill, I didn’t want to go out on Saturday. It was regretful to miss the chance to join you at the Talk Show.
Although having stiffed shoulders, I feel better now. So I read books all day. One is a Japanese book on sociological research methods. The other is Poovey’s.
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Poovey’s next two chapters examine Wollstonecraft’s writings.
• 2 Man’s Discourse, Woman’s Heart: Mary Wollstonecraft’s Two Vindications
When Mary Wollstonecraft (Apr. 27, 1759 – Sept. 10, 1797) was born, her father, a farmer, was anticipating the family’s upward mobility into the landed middle classes through his trades.
His son, however, nearly destroyed his family by squandering his inheritance, which necessitated her to work as a lady’s companion at the age of eighteen.
The two emotions Wollstonecraft seems to have felt comfortable with throughout her youth were resignation and pity.
Her first work published before 1788 was Thoughts on the Education of Daughters: with Reflections on Female Conduct, in the More Important Duties of Life, which advocates “the ideal principles of self-control and submission.” (p. 55)
The French Revolution occurred in 1789. No sooner did Edmund Burke condemn a series of revolutionary events in France and publish Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) than Wollstonecraft objected to his conservatism by writing A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790). Two years later, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman was published. She realized in this, the middle-class woman was situated to be made into a Proper Lady.
• 3 Love’s Skirmishes and the Triumph of Ideology
This chapter analyses Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark and the novel Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman.
The Letters is not a book of personal letters, but an epistolary travelogue by which Wollstonecraft wished to become independent financially from ex-lover Gilbert Imlay.
Maria is an unhappy heroine who believes in romantic love, wrongly thinks her ultimate happiness resides in the institutionalized marriage, and deceived by her own idealism twice.
• 4 “My Hideous Progeny” The Lady and the Monster
After a brief bibliography of Mary Shelley (1797-1851), Poovey contrasts two versions of Frankenstein to show how Shelley might have changed her idea.
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was first published in 1818 and revised in 1831. The latter version implies that Frankenstein was destined to be killed by the monster he made eventually.
The most interesting change is about Frankenstein’s family. In the latter, he had better relationships with family and friends.
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