Women and the Alphabet: A Series of Essays

by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Book Overview

Paris smiled, for an hour or two, in the year 1801, when, amidst Napoleon's mighty projects for remodelling the religion and government of his empire, the ironical satirist, Sylvain Mar chal, thrust in his "Plan for a Law prohibiting the Alphabet to Women."Daring, keen, sarcastic, learned, the little tract retains to-day so much of its pungency, that we can hardly wonder at the honest simplicity of the author's friend and biographer, Madame Gacon...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517268559
• ISBN13: 9781517268558
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 118 Pages
• Weight: 0.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"