...Obedience which it is necessary the 1. Toilet: dressing table. Women should pay to our Commands:—If once they have the Capacity of arguing with us, where...impartial Reader, even among the Men, if this very Reason for keeping us in Subjection does not betray an Arrogance and Pride in themselves, yet less...

...would destroy that implicit Obedience which it is necessary the Women should pay to our Commands:—If once they have the Capacity of arguing with us, where would be our Authority?" (Female Spectator 2:247). The City Jilt's vision of a financially successful unmarried woman who is...