Empowering the Feminine

Mary Robinson, a fantastic beauty and popular actress, and once lover of the Prince of Wales, received the epithet ''the English Sappho'' for her lyric verse. Amelia Opie, a member of the fashionable literary society and later a Quaker, included amongst her friends Sydney Smith, Byron, and Scott, and reputedly refused Godwin''s marriage proposal out of admiration for Mary Wollstonecraft. Jane We...