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History of Brazil

History of Brazil (1810-19) Inferred

Robert Southey (1774–1843) · 1810-19

InferredNamed in context of 'the Paraguay woman... described by Southey as lamenting in such heart-breaking tones'; likely from Southey's History of Brazil. Named explicitly as 'Southey.' The Paraguay woman anecdote is cited in the context of Madame Necker's discussion, which quotes this passage. Southey's History of Brazil (1810-19) contains ethnographic material on South American women.

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I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

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VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Woman in the Nineteenth Century

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“the feelings of the mother, at the birth of a female child, resemble those of the Paraguay woman, described by Southey as lamenting in such heart-breaking tones that her mother did not kill her”

Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.

Inferred Named in context of 'the Paraguay woman... described by Southey as lamenting in such heart-breaking tones'; likely from Southey's History of Brazil. Named explicitly as 'Southey.' The Paraguay woman anecdote is cited in the context of Madame Necker's discussion, which quotes this passage. Southey's History of Brazil (1810-19) contains ethnographic material on South American women.