work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context 5871,Blank Slate,My own reading,2009-09-14 19:44:06 UTC,"The mind of a young woman lady should be clear and unsullied, like a sheet of white paper, or her own fairer face: lines of thinking destroy the dimples of beauty; aping the reason of man, they lose the exquisite, fascinating charm, in which consists their true empire.
(p. 57). ",,15611,"•The metaphor reworked in argument that follows. I have recorded this metaphor twice: it also appears in the database as a 'Body' metaphor.
•Note this citation in Ruth Perry's Women, Letters, and the Novel: a perfect governness should not permit letters to enter her house and never allows return answers, ""but what she is privy to; by which means, there is nothing we write we meed be ashamed of, were it legibly written on our Foreheads as well as Papers"" (133). From Hannah Wolley's The Gentlewoman's Companion (London 1673), p. 234. On the next page Perry observes, ""The governess was expected to try and control everything that passed through a girl's mind"" (134).","""The mind of a young woman lady should be clear and unsullied, like a sheet of white paper, or her own fairer face""",Writing,2009-09-14 19:44:06 UTC,In argument about what sort of reading women should undertake.