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Mrs. Adolphus Smith Sporting the blue stocking
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Fanny Fern
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Mr. Pipkins Ideas of Family Retrenchment
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Fanny Fern
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Moral Molasses; or, Too Sweet by half
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Fanny Fern
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A law more nice than just
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fanny fern
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blackwell's Island
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fanny fern
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the working girls of New York
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fanny fern
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Aint I a woman?
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Sojourner Truth
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What Time of Night it is
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Sojourner Truth
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Keeping the things going while things are stirring
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Sojourner Truth
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Incidents in the Life of a slave girl
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Harriet Jacobs
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Woman in the nineteenth century
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Margaret Fuller
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Life in the Iron Mills
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Rebecca Harding Davis
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My Mysterious Mademoiselle
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Louisa May Alcott
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How I went to Service
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Louisa May Alcott
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The Awakening
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Kate Chopin
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How to Suppress women's writings
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Joanna Russ
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Tradition and the female talent: the awakening as a solitary book
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Showalter
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The metaphorical lesbian: Edna pontellier in the awakening
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leblanc
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The Town poor
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Sarah orne Jewett
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The Revolt of Mother
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Mary Freeman
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The Yellow Wallpaper
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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two ways of unwomanly activity
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subordinate working class, insubordinate middle or upper class ladies.
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The discrepancy between womens ideology and the reality of their lives sparked the women's __
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revolution
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In the United States it was the __ movement that inaugurated a feminist groundswell.
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anti-slavery
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Fanny Fern from what state
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Maine
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Fern popular because she blasts the __. Gets away with it because it is __, its what people are thinking.
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laws, funny
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saying men/women more alike than we think. If so different, why clothing law?
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a law more nice than just, fanny fern
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Starts out beautifully, has womanly duties so she can't build herself up intellectually
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Mrs. Aldolphus Smith sporting the blue stocking, fanny fern
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Saying guidebooks are ridiculous, gives a true definition of what marriage should be
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Moral Molasses; or, Too Sweet by half, fanny fern
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Shows the double standard. Men not judged, prostitutes punished. Men not tested for STDs, women are. Shes very serious in this one. Shows the double standard. Informing wealthy women of the situation, educating them
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Blackwell's island fanny fern
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We should help oppressed women. Says reason prostitution should be illegal so both women and men can be pure. Marriages should be free of adultery, should be equal
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The working girls of new york, fanny fern
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rejects any cultural commandments that fail to meet the needs of her own soul
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byronic heroine
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Sojourner truth from
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New York
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Harriet Jacobs from
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North Carolina
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Owner of Harriet Jacobs in life of a slave girl
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Dr. Flint
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father of Harriet Jacobs children
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Mr. Sands
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image of black and white girl playing together
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Incidents in the life of a slave girl, harriet jacobs
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asks why white women put up with husbands cheating on them with slaves.
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incidents in the life of a slave girl, harriet jacobs
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owner builds cottage in the swamp, so she runs away
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incidents in the life of a slave girl, harriet jacobs
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has children with mr. sands to have power over where children will go
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incidents in the life of a slave girl, harriet jacobs
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___, not enough time/money, access to materials, household duties etc
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prohibitions, russ, how to suppress
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epitome of how women should be raised. Father pushed education. showing its not a natural disability, social. house not a home unless women can expand their minds
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margaret fuller
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__ __ intentional or not. Nazies allowed neighbors to be killed, good people stand by and watch oppression, __ effect. think someone else will take care of it
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bad faith, bystander, russ, how to suppress
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__ of __ she didn't write it, he did. speculation that lee didn't write to kill a mockingbird, or man inside her wrote it
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denial of agency, russ, how to suppress
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__of __, no decent woman should write, women scribblers,
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pollution of agency, russ, how to suppress
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Margaret fuller from
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Massachusetts
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Died in a shipwreck outside new york harbor
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margaret fuller
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Artistic, intuitive perspective over reason. Reason took away the divine right of kings, led the way for this movement. nature-source of goodness. Human societies equal corruption, if part of insitution hard to change it. has become rigid, less prone to change. put faith in nature
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romanticism
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all about feeling over reason, primarily male movement. individual over law and custom, if immoral, resist it. cultural rejuvenation against materialism. __ presence within us, all apart of it.
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transcendentalism, over-soul
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Margaret Fuller is a __
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transcendentalist
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Says why can't women participate if oversoul apart of all of us. says when deny natural desires, kill the person, stresses individuality. energy of both sexes should become whole
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Woman in the Nineteenth century, margaret fuller
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Abstinancy, deprives herself of a social life, oxymoron. deprivation, intense emotional state so she can understand what it means to be truly alive
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banquet of abstemiousness, emily dickinson
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in order to become famous, must announce yourself all the time, says shes perfectly comfortable to be nobody and create great things
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emily dickinson
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She wore white, maybe a ghost, what brides wear, virginal dedication to poetic self.
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emily dickinson
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__ __- her writing is seal to reign over own art
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royal seal, emily dickinson
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__ __ claiming right to be scarlet woman, claiming she is an autonomous being.
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scarlet prison, emily dickinson
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shut up in prose, maybe prose represents structure, if reading prose, not writing, try to keep her still, but cant stop thinking, comparison to a __, cannot contain human spirit
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bird, emily dickinson
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religion is poetry, __ motion of encompassing, reaching outward to include something larger than a static point. its ever expanding. she/center is acquiring mind, intent on explaining all of universe. uncover mysteries of life. what it means to be human. __ __ cant get it, its heaven, painful because will never reach it
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circumference, divine reality
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___ nature can only be perceived as it vanishes, cannot be reporduced. changing of the seasons, the human body. environment itself
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evanescence
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main character in life in the iron mills
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Hugh Wolfe, Rebecca harding Davis
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woman in life in the iron mills who steals the money
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deborah, rebecca harding davis
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young girl who hugh pays attention to that deb is jealous of in life in the iron mills
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janey, rebecca harding davis
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where is rebecca harding davis from
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Pennsylvania
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when Hugh looks out the window in life in the iron mills, it is the first time he can ___
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slow down and really think, rebecca harding davis
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life in the iron mills, sculture regognition of __, she is __, hugh can't use his skills to make impact. not realized until men see it, dont do anything about it. __ is losing out too.
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struggle, hungry, society, rebecca harding davis
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life in the iron mens transfer from __ to __, thrown in jail, abrupt, indicative of life
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romanticism to realism
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solution to capitalism in life in the iron mills is __ __, doesnt go next step into __ intervention, hopes reading will lend to the fight
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quakers, charity, political
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he is appreciative of Hughs work, but does nothing about it, it is his money who gets stolen by Deb, life in the iron mills
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Mitchell rebecca harding davis
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owner of the mill, views the workers as machines, not interested in Hughes work, life in the iron mills
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kirby, rebecca harding davis
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encourages Hugh, says its all about money, life in the iron mills
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Dr. May, rebecca harding davis
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Louisa May Alcott from
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Massachusetts
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Louisa May Alcott was a __, part of the __ __
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transcendentalist, genius cluster
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Transcendentalists defined beliefs of __ and __, 1st __
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environmentalism, conservation, environmentalists
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__ wifes inheritance supported the genius cluster
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emersons
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__ passed notes to margaret fuller
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Emerson
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___ spent 12 years in seclusion after college writing, married sister of beautiful woman
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Hawthorne
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__ characters based on Margaret Fuller
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Hawthornes
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__ and __ had intensely erotic, but not sexual relationshhip, after this relationship ended, wrote moby-dick
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hawthorne and melville
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oppresive man of the household in How i went out to service
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Josephus, Louisa May Alcott
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Josephus' sister who louisa is in charge of taking care of in How i went out to service
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Eliza, Louisa May alcott
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maid in How i went out to service
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Puah, louisa may alcott
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Josephus presents louisa with a __, symbol that falls to pieces so suddenly as the rapid disappearance of all the romantic delusions she induldged in
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overblown rose, Louisa May Alcott
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hysteria means __. menstruation, pregnancy, lactation turned women into helpless invalids but also that __ and __ or __ labor would damage women's health
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womb, education, physical, mental
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__ __, lustful vampire, and a potent mother, epitomizes the contradictory of the fatal female
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femme fatale
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__ __ was a rebel who regarded marriage as incompatible with her emancipation but who just as frequently suffered a tragic penalty for her views
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new woman
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By the begining of __, many of the necessary conditions for female emancipation were present. __, __, __, __, __
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world war 1, technology, laws, education, unions
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__ __, prohibited the distrubution of information of contraceptives
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comstock law
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__ __ __, act that released sick hunger strikers and allowed them to be rearrested without a fresh warrant to continue serving their sentences when they were well
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cat and mouse act
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The awakening is a __ text, humans part of a natural order, no god, simply nature. no spiritual world, we are victims of blind external or biological forces. influenced by darwinism. American philosophy of self-reliance and individuality, but there is so much that can help us, schools, coaches. the awakening, Edna's life functions from forces outside her control
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naturalist
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how does edna realize that she is miserable? reactions to her husbands behavior, she compares __ to her husband
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robert
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when edna stomps on the __, symbol of her powerlessness, doesn't damage it
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ring
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Reisz mentions __, symbol for her awakening
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wings
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with __, edna has to be able to find love without lust and lust without love
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alcee
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Showalter, is the ocean her __ or is it her __? is it sensual or being reborn?
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lover, womb
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Sarah Orne Jewitt is from
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Maine
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Mrs. __ and Mrs. __ in the town poor
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Trimble, wright, Sarah Orne Jewitt
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In the town poor, two sisters, __ and __
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Ann, mandany Bray, Sarah Orne Jewitt
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Mrs. __ says at the end of the town poor that she is going to do something about the Bray sisters
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Trimble, Sarah Orne Jewitt
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Sarah Orne Jewitt and Mary Wilkins Freeman were __
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regionalists
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__, wrote during realism, capture the reality of regions they lived in. __ __, emphasizes setting, dialect, ways of thinking, dress. goal to capture life, use it as a form of protest
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regionalism, local color
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Sarah Penns son in The revolt of mother
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Sammy, mary wilkins freeman
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sarah penns daughter in the revolt of mother
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nanny, mary wilkins freeman
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Sarah penns husband in the revolt of mother
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adoniram, mary wilkins freeman
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mother in the revolt of mother
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sarah penn
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the minister that comes to talk to sarah in the revolt of mother
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mr. Hersey
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the town poor, not just blaming the men, Mrs. __ and Ms. __ feel guilty, form of social protest that doesnt point fingers
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trimble, wright, sarah orne jewett
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mary wilkins freeman from
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massachussets
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Charlotte perkins Gilman from
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Connecticut
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wifes husbands name in the yellow wallpaper
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John, charlotte perkins Gilman
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in the yellow wallpaper her inability to make sense of the wallpaper is like societies inability to make sense of __ __
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psychological conditions
