...usual place, in the retreats of academic erudition and in the seats of religion. Our peasantry now read the Rights of Man on mountains and moors and...their governors. Happy indeed, had they been taught no other comparison. Our unsexed female writers now instruct or confuse us and themselves in the labyrinth...

...the availability of revolutionary texts, and in particular of Paine s writings: "Our peasantry now read the Rights of Man on mountains, and moors, and...now instruct, or confuse, us and themselves in the labyrinth of politicks, or turn us wild with Gallick frenzy." In the good old days of the indefinite...

...usual place, in the retreats of academic erudition, and in the seats of religion. Our peasantry now read the Rights of Man on mountains, and moors, and...they been taught to make no other comparison. Our uusexed female writers now instruct, or confuse, us and themselves in the labyrinth of politics, or...

...is worth remembering that maternal 'instincts' were made, not born. 26 Notes 1 Mathias claimed that 'Our unsexed female writers now instruct, or confuse, us and themselves in the labyrinth of politicks, or turn us wild with Gallic frenzy' (Mathias 1798: 238); Polwhele, 'The Unsex'd...

...torchbearers of plebeian enlightenment. Alarmed by Paine - 'our peasantry,' whinged TJ Mathias, 'now read the Rights of Man on mountains, and moors, and by the way side' 17 - in May 1792 Pitt issued a proclamation against 'seditious writings'. Paine prudently fled, but...

...torchbearers of plebeian enlightenment. Alarmed by Paine - 'our peasantry,' whinged TJ Mathias, 'now read the Rights of Man on mountains, and moors, and by the way side'17 - in May 1792 Pitt issued a proclamation against 'seditious writings'. Paine prudently fled,...

...propagandists, keen to exploit the disreputability of such goings-on, sometimes made a fuss: 'Our peasantry now read the Rights of Man on mountains, and moors, and by the way side. . .,' TJ Mathias wailed in a widely read pamphlet: 'Our unsexed female writers now instruct, or confuse,...

...overblown terms any democratising aspects of British literary culture of the 1790s: 'our peasantry now read the Rights of Man on mountains, and moors, and by the wayside; and shepherds make the analogy between their occupations and that of their governors'; and...

...example of what TJ Mathias patronisingly satirised in his Pursuits of Literature:3 'Our peasantry now read the Rights of Man on mountains, and moors, and by the wayside; and shepherds make the analogy between their occupation and that of their governors. Happy...

...usual place; in the retreats of academic erudition, and in the seats of religion. Our peasantry now read the Rights of Man on mountains, and moors, and...Happy indeed, had they been taught to make no other comparison.1 Our unsexed female writers now instruct, or confuse, us and themselves in the labyrinth...