Home, Or the Iron Rule, Vol. 2 of 3

Home, Or the Iron Rule, Vol. 2 of 3

Author: Sarah Stickney

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-25

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 9780483960114

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Excerpt from Home, or the Iron Rule, Vol. 2 of 3: A Domestic Story Sleep on, said she, it is for the mise rable to wake and weep. Sleep on, thy in nocent bosom is unconscious of the frightful thoughts that have so lately tortured mine. Sleep on, thou wilt awake when the morning sun smiles sweetly on us both; but thou alone wilt find beauty or gladness in his beams. Seating herself upon the side of the couch, she then looked stedfastly upon the fair countenance of her who, all unconscious of the mischief that countenance had wrought. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.


Women against cruelty

Women against cruelty

Author: Diana Donald

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2019-10-23

Total Pages: 395

ISBN-13: 1526115441

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This is the first book to explore women’s leading role in animal protection in nineteenth-century Britain, drawing on rich archival sources. Women founded bodies such as the Battersea Dogs’ Home, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and various groups that opposed vivisection. They energetically promoted better treatment of animals, both through practical action and through their writings, such as Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty. Yet their efforts were frequently belittled by opponents, or decried as typifying female ‘sentimentality’ and hysteria. Only the development of feminism in the later Victorian period enabled women to show that spontaneous fellow-feeling with animals was a civilising force. Women’s own experience of oppressive patriarchy bonded them with animals, who equally suffered from the dominance of masculine values in society, and from an assumption that all-powerful humans were entitled to exploit animals at will.