...tearing away what has been called the decent drapery of life ?" " Drapery, if you ask me my opinion, 1 ' cried Mrs. Freke, " drapery, whether wet or dry, is...thing in the world." "That depends on public opinion, t allow," said Mr. Percival. " The Lace-daemonian ladies, who were veiled only t by public opinion,...

...improve the world, I'll tell you : I'd have your sex taught to say. Horns ! horns ! I defy you." • " This would doubtless be a great improvement," said...Percival. "The Lacedaemonian ladies, who were veiled only Vjy public opinion, were better -covered from profane eyes, than some English ladies are in wet drapery."...

...Should we find things much improved by tearing away what has been called the decent drapery of life f" " Drapery, if you ask me my opinion," cried Mrs Freke....ladies are in wet drapery." " I know nothing of the Lacedasmonian ladies, I look my leave of them when I was a schoolboy — girl — I should say. But,...

...appearance ? I suppose the prude was afraid of my demolishing and unrigging her." " ' Drapery, if you ask my opinion/ cried Mrs. Freke, ' drapery, whether wet...the most confoundedly indecent thing in the world/ " I know that there are writers who assert that we have not gained by the difference ; but I think...

...appearance ? I suppose the prude was afraid of my demolishing and unrigging her." " ' Drapery, if you ask my opinion,' cried Mrs. Freke, ( drapery, whether...the most confoundedly indecent thing in the world.' " I know that there are writers who assert that we have not gained by the difference ; but I think...

...appearance ? I suppose the prude was afraid of my demolishing and unrigging her." " ' Drapery, if you ask my opinion,' cried Mrs. Freke, ' drapery, whether...the most confoundedly indecent thing in the world.' " I know that there are writers who assert that we have not gained by the difference ; but I think...

...appearance ? I suppose the prude was afraid of my demolishing and unrigging her." "' Drapery, if you ask my opinion,' cried Mrs. Freke, ' drapery, whether...the most confoundedly indecent thing in the world.' " I know that there are writers who assert that we have not gained by the difference ; but I think...

...When Mr. Percival alludes to "the decent drapery of life," Mrs. Freke takes him literally and retorts, "drapery, whether wet or dry, is the most confoundedly indecent thing in the world." She ends the debate by rising and "stretching herself so violently that some part of her habiliments...

...to improve the world, I'll tell you: I'd have your sex taught to say, 'Horns! horns!' I defy you." "This would doubtless be a great improvement," said...ladies are in wet drapery." "I know nothing of the Lacedemonian ladies, I took my leave of them when I was a schoolboy — girl — I should say. But,...

...that "talking to them of the delicacy of their sex ... enslaves the pretty delicate dears," and that "drapery, whether wet or dry, is the most confoundedly indecent thing in the world," Mrs. Freke aligns herself with the revolutionary feminism of both Wollstonecraft and de Gouges: "'I...