Women like not only to conquer, but to be conquered.

William Makepeace Thackeray

The Virginians

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Nature of women Women

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William Makepeace Thackeray

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The Virginians

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Novel

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Historical fiction

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English

Time

1859 1850s 19th century

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Novelist Writer

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India Asia

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Thackeray, William Makepeace. The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century. Bradbury and Evans, 1 Nov. 1857 - 1 Nov. 1859.

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If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "Table-Talk." Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Vol. 1. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1857.

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "Table-Talk." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems and Other Writings, edited by J. D. McClatchy. Library of America, 2000.

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O fairest of Creation, last and best
Of all God's works.

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John Milton
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Paradise Lost
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English
Time
1667 1660s 17th century
Era
European Renaissance
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Milton, John. Paradise Lost. London: Samuel Simmons, 1667, bk. 8, I. 896.

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"Paradise Lost." John Milton: Major Works, edited by Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 9, I. 896.

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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

John Stuart Mill

On Liberty

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John Stuart Mill
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On Liberty
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Essay
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Philosophical literature Political literature
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English
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1859 1850s 19th century
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Mill, John Stuart. On Liberty. London: J.W. Parker and Son, 1859, ch. 2.

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Mill, John Stuart. "On Liberty." On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 2.