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Sarah Robinson Scott (1720-1795), the author of novels, biographies, and histories, was born to many advantages of education and upbringing that made her a writer. But without a strong desire for financial independence, she might never have become a professional author. She saw a great advantage in being unmarried because only unmarried women were free to work toward their own ends. This theme was to be incorporated into her first novel and best known work, A Description of Millenium Hall (1762).
The History of Sir George Ellison (1766) is a sequel to Millenium Hall. In it, Sir George, a visitor to the Hall, follows the pattern of the female utopia set forth in the earlier novel. Scott addresses issues of slavery, marriage, education, law and social justice, class pretensions, and the position of women in society. Throughout the book Scott consistently emphasizes the importance, for both genders and all classes and ages, of devoting one's life and most of one's time to meaningful work.
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Feminism, Fiction, Social reformers, Utopias, Social conditions, England, fiction, Fiction, historical, Women authors, Fiction, historical, generalPeople
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The history of Sir George Ellison
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1766, Printed for A. Millar,...
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Vol. 2, p. 245 misnumbered 145.
"Man of real sensibility, or The history of Sir George Ellison ... 1765 (?),... was afterwards expanded into 'The history of Sir George Ellison, '1766,...." - Dictionary of National Biography.
Fictitious biography of a person to whom the author gave the name 'Ellison.' cf. Preface.
Microfiche. Chicago, Ill. : Library Resources, inc., 1976. 1 microfiche : positive ; 8 x 13 cm. (Library of English literature, LEL 12165)
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"Sir George Ellison's father was the younger son of an ancient and opulent family; but receiving only that small proportion of his father's wealth, which, according to the custom of this country, usually falls to the share of a younger child, his posterity had little chance of inheriting any considerable fortune from him; though he had, by the profession in which he was place, been enabled to live genteelly."
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