Edgeworth's repeated self-effacement needs to be seen in the context of the times, where learning in women was often disapproved of and even ridiculed, such as the satirical poem of the Rev . Richard Polwhele, " The Unsex'd Females " ( 1798 ).
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Hays was described by those who disliked her as'the baldest disciple of [ Mary ] Wollstonecraft'by " The Anti Jacobin Magazine ", attacked as an'unsex'd female'by clergyman Robert Polwhele, and provoked controversy through her long life with her rebellious writings.
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However, " The Unsex'd Females, a Poem " ( 1798 ), a defensive reaction to women's literary self-assertion, is today perhaps Polwhele's most notorious poetic production : in the poem Hannah More is Christ to Mary Wollstonecraft's Satan.
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Were we going with the New Nationalist Race Woman Stance _ standing by her rooting, tooting, raping and a-looting man ( who, she hastens to explain, wasn't really raping but only hurrying because he could hear the hooded horseman galloping round the house waiting to unsex him )?
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In her writing she faced two important obstacles, the backlash against educated women as typified by Richard Polwhele and his hostile satirical poem " The Unsex'd Females " ( 1798 ) and the moral concerns of a society that felt that such a delicate matter as the sexual reproduction of plants was inappropriate matter for'female modesty'to be exposed to.
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She was criticised in Richard Polwhele's " The Unsex'd Females ", for having painted the Frontispiece to Erasmus Darwin's " The Loves of the Plants " : " There is a charming delicacy in most of the pictures of Miss Emma Crewe; though I think, in her " Flora at play with Cupid, " & she has rather overstepped the modesty of nature, by giving the portrait an air of voluptuousness too luxuriously melting ."
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