Note 827 — Chapter XVIII · PROBLEMS OF MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY (continued 2)
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Mary Anne Radcliffe, The Female Advocate (London, 1799). A petition of women to Louis XVI. in 1789 prays "that men may not ply the trades belonging to women, whether dressmaking, embroidery, or haberdashery. Let them leave us, at least the needle and the spindle, and we will engage not to wield the compass or the square."—Ostrogorski, The Rights of Women, 26, 27; following Lefaure, Le socialisme pendant la révolution, 122.