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Rh the Rights of Women without examining it, thus necessarily missing its true significance. In this she doubtless represented a large majority of her sex. She wrote to Horace Walpole in 1793:—

Men, on the other hand, thought Mary was unsexing herself by her arguments, which seemed to interfere with their rights,—an interference they could not brook. Walpole, when he answered the letter from which the above extract is taken, wrote with warmth:—

She seems always to have incurred Walpole's deepest scorn and wrath. He could not speak of her without heaping scorn upon her name. A year or two later,