Nineteenth-century women, if they were to achieve freedom in what seemed to them a hostile world, needed direction, inspiration, appreciation, reassurance, a sense of self-importance and of group unity, a plan of action.
The Seneca Falls Convention supplied this to a few women but uncounted hundreds and thousands more found their Declaration of Rights, their Statement of Intentions within the pages of the domestic novel.
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