The Kids These Days and The Novels: The Reverend James Fordyce and Sexy, Sexy Modesty, feat. Mary Wollstonecraft

The Reverend James Fordyce was quite a popular author for a while, and like Clara Reeve, he would be thoroughly horrified by how many modern women just aren’t into being hooted at in the street and treated like mobile vending machines for sexual favors. Reverend Fordyce was the author of the popular-in-its-time Sermons to Young … Continue reading The Kids These Days and The Novels: The Reverend James Fordyce and Sexy, Sexy Modesty, feat. Mary Wollstonecraft

The Kids These Days and The Novels: Clara Reeve and the Circulating Library Menace

So far in The Kids These Days and The Novels, we’ve seen people complain that novels can cause earthquakes, that novels can be written by women, that novels can cause false taste in criticism and art, that novels are too much fun to possibly be good for you, and that there are so darned many … Continue reading The Kids These Days and The Novels: Clara Reeve and the Circulating Library Menace