... radical ideas expressed by some feminists dismiss the idea of feminism. Published literature on the subject includes radical utopian views by some women that picture the ideal society as man-free, reproducing artificially. These women are viewed as radical lesbian man-haters and present a distorted view on feminism and feminists. There is another aspect of feminism and parenting, where a two-parent ... Crosland, Margaret. Women of Iron and Velvet: French women writers after George Sand Taplinger Publishing Co, New York, 1976 Hopkins, Andrea. Heroines: Remarkable and Inspiring Women/An I...

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... a clerk in a lawyers' office. Deciding to become a parliamentary reporter, he taught himself shorthand at night, while continuing to work in the office. In 1828, during his sixteenth year, he became a free-lance reporter at Doctor's Commons Courts. For several years he alternated reporting, exploring the London streets, and reading avidly in London's libraries. Already devoted to the ... essays of Joseph Addison, Oliver Goldsmith, and Samuel Jon, he now read the major nineteenth-century essayists: Leigh Hunt, William Hazlitt, Charles Lamb, Walter Savage Landor, and Thomas DeQuincey. At ...

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