Abigail had a ready reply: "I regret the trifling narrow contracted education of females in my own country .You need not be told how much female education is neglected, nor how fashionable it has been to ridicule female learning. " I suspect he needed not be told because she had told him again and again. " (Roberts (1), p.12) While John and Abigail were real partners in their marriage, they didn't always agree on every issue. ...

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Chaucer has come under critical disapproval for not adhering to socially prescribed gender roles for feminity in his character WB. ... The lesson that WB learns is obvious: marriage is contracted for money, and the acquisition of money is equivalent to the attainment of honor, respect, and independence (Carruthers 214). ...

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