The moral lesson that women as the weaker sex should be accompanied by elder people or male relatives is presented in this work. A justification of the customs

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Cottegnies (English literature, University of Paris 8-Saint Denis) and Weitz (University of Oxford) offer a collection of essays on Margaret Cavendish's innovat