A Description of Millennium Hall
A Description of Millennium Hall (Broadview Literary Texts) Sarah Scott
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1551110156
Edition: Paperback; 1995-10
Summary:
In 1750 at the age of twenty-seven Sarah Scott published her first
novel, a conventional romance. A year later she left her husband
after only a few months of marriage and devoted herself thereafter to
writing and to promoting female communities. This revolutionary
concept was given flesh in Millenium Hall, first published in 1762
and generally thought to be the finest of her six novels. The text
may seem as the manifesto of the 'bluestocking' movement--the protean
feminism that arose under eighteenth-century gentry capitalism
(originating in 1750, largely under the impetus of Scott's sister
Elizabeth Montagu), and that rejected a world with early feminists
saw symbolized in the black silk stockings demanded by formal
society. It is a comment on Western society as well as on the
strengths of Scott's novel that the message of Millenium Hall
continues to resonate strongly more than two centuries later.
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