The Role Of Women During The Enlightenment And...

Haley Huffty Richardson ENGL2327 23 October 2014 The Roles of Women during the Enlightenment and Transcendental Period: The Tell of Rowson versus Fuller Throughout history the majority of the time when someone is telling women how to behave that someone is a man, but in Susan Rowson and Margret Fullers case they felt the need to tell their fellow females the proper way to behave in their society, rather it was with or against popular belief. Rowson was writing during the Early Republic, Enlightenment Era when women were told to be seen and not heard, and that if they chose to stray from their purity and have sex before marriage that there best opportunity to live any kind of life at all was to go into prostitution. Rowson’s Charlotte: A Tale of Truth is written about a young woman that loses her virginity before marriage and that sets her life in a tailspin were her best options became suicide, becoming an old maid or prostitution. In Fuller’s The Great Lawsuit: MAN versus MEN. 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