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It's amazing how once women had more of a choice of who they were going to marry, how hesitant and cautious they became. From this essay, it also seems that maybe it was a good thing that they were. Emma married and some years later her husband's finances collapsed. When her younger sister had a suitor, she warned her to proceed with caution. Ironically, the advice she gave to her sister could have benefited her when a gold digger took all her money. Poor Emma. -Amy Van Ness | It's amazing how once women had more of a choice of who they were going to marry, how hesitant and cautious they became. From this essay, it also seems that maybe it was a good thing that they were. Emma married and some years later her husband's finances collapsed. When her younger sister had a suitor, she warned her to proceed with caution. Ironically, the advice she gave to her sister could have benefited her when a gold digger took all her money. Poor Emma. -Amy Van Ness | ||
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| + | I feel like Emma Willard's letter to her sister is paradoxical to the view of marriage a lot of women had during that time. This was a time when women were marrying for love and looking for romance in a relationship rather than status, etc. For such a time when women were finally able to have a choice in whom they married, Emma Willard was extremely pessimistic about her sister's marriage. She may have just been trying to be honest with her sister about what would happen in her marriage, but I feel like she completely disregarded the romanticized view of marriage. She was more realistically aware of the possibilities of "your lover's seeing some object that he will consider more interesting than you"(in regards to her sister's husband) (P. 144). While she may have been harsh in showing her sister the realities of marriage, Emma was probably only trying to protect her sister from her own naivety and reverie. --- Alex Mankarios | ||
== Caroline Gilman, “The Deferential Wife,” 1838 == | == Caroline Gilman, “The Deferential Wife,” 1838 == | ||
