Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Mary Ann Radcliffe (c. 1746 – c. 1818) was an important British figure in the early feminist movement.Radcliffe married at age 15, had eight children, and she worked because her husband could not provide for the family. She sought positions as a housekeeper, governess, and in a milliner shop. With hard work she was able to put her sons through school.She is most famous for her book,The Female Advocate; or, An Attempt to Recover the Rights of Women from Male Usurpation (1799). This book discussed how men working in millinery and other occupations took jobs away from women forcing them to prostitution. Radcliffe's argument was framed in Christianity. She stressed how respectable women are turning to prostitution because of poverty and lack of respectable work. She argued that lack of education, societal prejudices of what a genteel woman should or should not do, hampered women from obtaining a job in a respectable establishment.Her later published book, The Memoirs of Mrs. Mary Ann Radcliffe; in Familiar Letters to her Female Friend in 1810, made apparent the strong influence of her life's circumstances on her first book.. }
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- Mary_Ann_Radcliffe abstract "Mary Ann Radcliffe (c. 1746 – c. 1818) was an important British figure in the early feminist movement.Radcliffe married at age 15, had eight children, and she worked because her husband could not provide for the family. She sought positions as a housekeeper, governess, and in a milliner shop. With hard work she was able to put her sons through school.She is most famous for her book,The Female Advocate; or, An Attempt to Recover the Rights of Women from Male Usurpation (1799). This book discussed how men working in millinery and other occupations took jobs away from women forcing them to prostitution. Radcliffe's argument was framed in Christianity. She stressed how respectable women are turning to prostitution because of poverty and lack of respectable work. She argued that lack of education, societal prejudices of what a genteel woman should or should not do, hampered women from obtaining a job in a respectable establishment.Her later published book, The Memoirs of Mrs. Mary Ann Radcliffe; in Familiar Letters to her Female Friend in 1810, made apparent the strong influence of her life's circumstances on her first book.".