Harry Potter and History

Harry wished he had about eight more eyes. He turned his head in every direction as they walked up the street, trying to look at everything at once.

Introduction: A Half-Blood World?

Such women became targets for marriage or remarriage, as indicated by the 1185 Register of Rich Widows and of Orphaned Heirs and Heiresses, which considered these people profitable assets to exploit, and which listed their names for fortune-hunting men.26

By modern standards, her statements in favor of women’s education are bland and conventional, but Wollstonecraft argued for the cultivation of reason and rationality in women to counteract the Gothic romance and frivolity that were fashionable among eighteenth-century elites. Nevertheless, Wollstonecraft felt that women’s education should supplement, not replace, their domestic training: “No employment of the mind is a sufficient excuse for neglecting domestic duties, and I cannot conceive that they are incompatible. A woman may fit herself to be the