Reassessing the Impact of the “Republican Virago”
According to Edmund Burke, Catharine Macaulay was “the greatest champion” among a group of contemporary agitators for a Bill of Rights, whom he deemed to be “a rotten subdivision” of the Whig faction. However he did not deign to answer her criticisms of him, thus initiating a tendency among mainstre...
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Helsinki University Press
2016-05-01
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Online Access: | https://journal-redescriptions.org/articles/74 |