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The Monies will not Answer: Mary Wollstonecraft and Catrina Davies on property, freedom and precarity

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posted on 2024-08-01, 14:03 authored by Laura Brace

This paper explores the writing, and lives, of two women, Wollstonecraft and the contemporary writer Catrina Davies. It focuses on their experience of trying to live independent, creative and worthwhile lives under social and economic conditions of precarity and debt which curtail their aspirations to freedom. Wollstonecraft’s critique of property relations and of commercial society echoes through Davies’s experience of navigating the current housing crisis and struggling to make a decent income from her writing. In Newington Green in the 1780s and a coastal Cornish village in the 2010s, the paper explores what it means for women’s freedom when the monies will not answer. 

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College of Social Sci Arts and Humanities History, Politics & Int'l Relations

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  • VoR (Version of Record)

Published in

Women's Writing

Volume

31

Issue

3

Pagination

478 - 492

Publisher

Informa UK Limited

issn

0969-9082

eissn

1747-5848

Copyright date

2024

Available date

2024-08-01

Language

en

Deposited by

Professor Laura Brace

Deposit date

2024-07-29

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