![]() ![]() Men have various employments and pursuits which engage their attention, and give a character to the opening mind but women, confined to one, and having their thoughts constantly directed to the most insignificant part of themselves, seldom extend their views beyond the triumph of the hour. Taught from their infancy, that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and, roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison. Women are everywhere in this deplorable state for, in order to preserve their innocence, as ignorance is courteously termed, truth is hidden from them, and they are made to assume an artificial character before their faculties have acquired any strength. The picture reflects Mary Wollstonecraft’s views in The Rights of Women. Laredo The Debutante (1807) by Henry Fuseli shows a woman, the victim of male social conventions, tied to the wall, made to sew and guarded by governesses. ![]() ![]() Mary Wollstonecraft, From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (1792). ![]()
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