I just a novel that has inspired the rebel in me once more.

This entry is xposted to one of my other goals, which is to read 43 books this year.

13. All for Love, The Scandalous Life and Times of Royal Mistress Mary Robinson by Amanda Elyot.

Romance novel sounding title, but there was nothing like that in the book. It was very good, it was based on the life of Mary Robinson who was an actress, poetess, novelist, playwright, feminist, and courtesan to the Prince of Wales. She was also a contemporary of Georgiana the Duchess of Devonshire, Marie Antoinette, and Mary Wollstonecraft. I never knew of her existence until I found this novel on sale at Books-A-Million. I’m surprised that I did not learn about her in school seeing as how she is one of the first feminists in history to write about the deplorable treatment of women even after the Enlightenment, and she is also considered one of the first “celebrities”, because she was very fashionable and the newspapers and gossip columns covered her every move. She was also a very talented and prolific writer, who wrote in just about every style of literature during hr short life. She died at only 43 and she had published MANY volumes of poetry and novels, and even some plays. She also was one of the first poets to use the style of romanticism and the della cruscan style. WHY was I not taught anything about this amazing woman?

I think I know, because if a woman is beautiful and sexual her intelligence means nothing. If Paris Hilton was a rocket scientist who donated all her money to charity and saved a baby from a runaway train, she would still be the most loved to hate celebrity there is. Of course, she does none of those things so I personally have no respect for her, but beautiful women are never taken seriously, if they have brains, and the beautiful women who don’t have a thought in their heads are placed higher in esteem than the ones that do.

Men get the credit for everything…