Re: Female characters

In article <MSGID_2=3A240=2F2199.13=40fidonet_4a65976a@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
Tina_Hall@xxxxxxxxxxx (Tina Hall) wrote:

Michael R N Dolbear <m.dolbear@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Tina Hall <Tina_Hall@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote

Sorry, this is a bit dated; I kept this post until I had internet
access again to make use of a possible answer.

[...]

Where can I read up more on both?

Since you don't do internet,

Thanks for not reading what I wrote.

And the history of an individual that isn't doing the same as everyone
else isn't saying anything about the customs of that time.

Yep. For every intrepid Mary Kingsley -- and there were
more than a few -- there must have been thousands of women
stuck in the usual situation (before the married women's
property act, which came rather late I believe -- no *don't*
make me go do research!) where their husbands legally
took over any property or wealth the wife had, could get her
locked up in a nut-house if she troubled him too much, and
could always resort to threats to legally take her children
away from her if she defied him in any serious way. I
can't compare with Iran because I don't know.

The English independents were pretty much rich, well-
connected, and impatient with the larger constraints of
their culture much as men like Sir Richard Burton and
other renowned male English travelers were; not typical.
I don't think many of the famous Victorian independent
women had kids at the time of their travels, apart from
quite a number having been lesbian or (apparently) entirely
celibate and single just *so* that they could behave and
travel with relative freedom and minimal threats from
angry male relatives.

There was a sort of class of these ladies -- a number of their
exploits are to be found in a series of travel books by such
people that were re-published some years ago by Virago
Press, and fine reading they make, too! But it was a small
class, and the situation of the general run of English
women can't very well be inferred by looking at these
exceptions.

SMC
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