There was no accepted standard of what was ‘manly and what was ‘womanly.’…When Jeff said to Celis, “Women should not carry anything…they are not built for heavy work. Celis looked out across the fields to where some women were working, building a new bit of wall out of large stones; looked back at the nearest …
Category: Utopian Fiction
The Blithedale Romance, Nathaniel Hawthorne (1852)
It was our purpose…to give up whatever we had heretofore attained, for the sake of showing mankind the example of a life governed by other than the false and cruel principles on which human society has all along been based. The Blithedale Romance is Nathaniel Hawthorne’s not so thinly based autobiographical account of his 8 …
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