I don't know that women are always rewarded for being charming. I think they are usually punished for it!

Oscar Wilde

An Ideal Husband

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Topic

Charm Oppression of women Misogyny

Speaker

Mrs. Cheveley

Author

Oscar Wilde

Source

An Ideal Husband

Medium

Play

Language

English

Time

1895 1890s 19th century

Occupation

Playwright Writer

From

Ireland Europe

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Original Citation

Wilde, Oscar. An Ideal Husband. 1895, Haymarket Theatre, London, England, UK, act 1.

Current Citation

Wilde, Oscar. "An Ideal Husband." Oscar Wilde: The Major Works, edited by Isobel Murray. Oxford University Press, 2008, act 1.

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Cocaine Drugs
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Arthur Conan Doyle
Source
The Sign of Four
Medium
Novel Magazine
Genre
Detective fiction
Statement Type
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Language
English
Time
1890 1890s 19th century
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Original Citation

Doyle, Arthur. "The Sign of the Four; or, The Problem of the Sholtos." Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. London: Lippincott's, 1890, ch. 1.

Current Citation

Doyle, Arthur. The Sign of Four. The Sherlock Holmes Collector's Library. Detective Fiction, 2009, ch. 1.

Another quote about Oppression of women

So true is it that unnatural generally means only uncustomary, and that everything which is usual appears natural. The subjection of women to men being a universal custom, any departure from it quite naturally appears unnatural.

John Stuart Mill

The Subjection of Women

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Topic
Oppression of women Custom and convention

Author

John Stuart Mill
Source
The Subjection of Women
Medium
Essay
Genre
Political literature
Language
English
Time
1869 1860s 19th century
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Original Citation

Mill, John Stuart. The Subjection of Women. London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1869, ch. 1.

Current Citation

Mill, John Stuart. "The Subjection of Women." On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 1.