{"product_id":"house-peeresses-female-oratory-w78rbfi6","title":"The House of Peeresses: or, Female Oratory.","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst published in the same year and reprinted or re-issued on at least five occasions that year (ESTC records a “fifth edition, improved and corrected, with upwards of fifty additional illustrations and explanatory remarks.”)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA satirical attack on an ultimately unsuccessful bill to discourage divorce and particularly make it difficult for women to marry their adulterous partners. This very popular pamphlet imagines a council of notable (and barely disguised) women debating the subject.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe D…ss of B….D informs the committee: “It has been a growing maxim with myself, and, I trust, a well experienced truth with any of your Ladyships, that the subservience of woman should be directed by her convenience. The imposing authority of men is of so gross a nature, and unless duly curbed, is frequently carried to so considerable a length, that a non-resistance on our part, serves only to subjugate us more enormously, and render females the most mechanical, passive ministers of their inimical procedures” (p.23)\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Maggs Bros.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67917083771189,"sku":"263220","price":850.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0669\/0045\/9677\/files\/263220_01.jpg?v=1792765845","url":"https:\/\/store.maggs.com\/products\/house-peeresses-female-oratory-w78rbfi6","provider":"Maggs Bros.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}