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• W1551158302 abstract "My father will have told you a great deal. He will have told you too how much we are interested & agitated by probable event of approaching trials ... we are resolved to emigrate if event of trial be fatal.(1) In 1794, treason trials of Home Tooke, Thomas Hardy, and Thomas Holcroft crystallized differences between revolutionary sympathizers and a nervous British government. An ardent admirer of revolutionary principles, Amelia Alderson attended trials and later confessed that they marked the most interesting period of [her] long life.(2) In letters home, Alderson exults in radical victories and scorns governmental treachery. Her father was so disturbed by his daughter's outspoken objections to trials that he destroyed many of her letters. In surviving letters written to Susannah Taylor, Alderson openly expresses her dissatisfaction with an increasingly reactionary government: Hang these politics! how they haunt me. Would it not be better, think you, to hang framers of them?(3) In yet another letter dated 1794, Alderson writes: believe an hour to be approaching when salut and fraternite will be watchwords for civil slaughter throughout Europe; and meridian glory of sun of Liberty, in France, will light us to courting past dangers and horrors of republic, in hopes of obtaining her present power and greatness. It will be an awful time; may I meet it with fortitude!(4) I quote these letters at length to indicate Amelia Alderson's commitment to radical politics throughout 1790s. As an enthusiastic member of circle surrounding William Godwin, Holcroft, and Elizabeth Inchbald, and later Mary Wollstonecraft, Alderson participated in Jacobin politics and philosophy. Her ties to group were, however, broken by marriage to John Opie, a painter and member of Royal Academy, in 1798. The year in which Amelia Alderson Opie became a respectable wife is also year in which Godwin wrote and published his Memoirs of Mary Wollstonecraft. Recent literary scholarship tends to identify publication and reception of Memoirs as a watershed moment in late eighteenth-century backlash against outspoken philosophical women. Such women were a vocal and highly visible part of revolutionary discourse in both France and England and attempts to silence them resonate throughout conservative Regency publications. Yet too often literary criticism has erred in assuming that eighteenth-century revolutionary woman immediately became Victorian angel in house. Modern critics often focus on conservative Regency voices because in retrospect they seem to have won ideological battle waged over construction of femininity.(5) Amelia Opie--her life and her works--provides an ideal opportunity to study manifold subtleties implicit in highly volatile discourse surrounding British woman writer between 1798 and 1832. Because Opie forgoes overtly radical philosophizing after 1798 she has often been identified as a frightened reactionary, yet another Regency woman writer who abandoned revolutionary philosophy to protect her reputation.(6) Godwin's revelations about Wollstonecraft's passion for Henry Fuseli, her love affair with Gilbert Imlay, and their own pre-marital relationship gave rise to slanderous attacks against Wollstonecraft in conservative press. The Anti-Jacobin Review carried out an extensive campaign to discredit Wollstonecraft's political ideas by identifying her as a prostitute rather than as a writer and social critic. In a review of Memoirs, Anti-Jacobin makes following judgment: We must observe, that Maty's theory, that it is right of women to indulge their inclinations with every man they like, is so far from being new, that it is as old as prostitution.(7) And as late as 1801, magazine printed a poem which included following lines about Wollstonecraft's Vindication of Rights of Woman: Such license loose-tongued liberty adores, Which adds to female speech exceeding graces; Lucky maid that on her volume pores, A scripture, archly fram'd, for propagating w--s. …" @default.
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• W1551158302 title "Amelia Opie's 'Adeline Mowbray': Diverting the Libertine Gaze; or, the Vindication of a Fallen Woman" @default.
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