For having been educated in a convent, she knew nothing of the customs or manners of the world; and found it difficult to understand that among a people piquing themselves on their liberty, it was the custom to shut a man up in perpetual confinement, to enable him to pay his debts.Charlotte Turner Smith
About This Quote
This is a quote from the book, The History of England in Six Volumes, by Edward Gibbon. It is an account of the English Revolution. The quote is an example of an author's comments on the English Revolution, especially his thoughts on the role of women during that period. He believed that women did not understand their rights and did not know how to use them.
He goes on to say that they were completely ignorant of the world around them and did not even know how to dress or eat properly. His comments are meant to make women who lived in the 18th century understand their rights and shows them how they should be acting.
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