Fecha de nacimiento: 1723-09-21
Fecha de fallecimiento: 1795-11-03
Género: female
Nacionalidad: UK
Lugar de nacimiento: York, Yorkshire, England, UK
Lugar de fallecimiento: Old Catton, Norfolk, England, UK
Lugares de residencia: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Bath, Somerset, England, UK
Ocupaciones: social reformer
novelist
historian
translator
Relaciones: Montagu, Elizabeth Robinson (sister)
Biografía breve: Sarah Scott, née Robinson, was born in York and raised mostly in Cambridge, England, a daughter of a distinguished family. She was the younger sister of Elizabeth Robinson Montagu. She was well educated and took a great interest in literature and politics. In 1751, she made a brief, and apparently unhappy, marriage of convenience to George Lewis Scott. After her family "rescued" her from the marriage, Sarah Scott went to live with Lady Barbara Montagu (unrelated) and began to lead an active life of charity work and writing. Sarah worked to relieve the poverty of women and tried to start a utopian community with Elizabeth and friends. She wrote books to earn money and published them anonymously, but they were popular in their day. Her works reflect feminist concerns, such as the problems of poor and disabled women, and the lack of opportunities for females in 18th-century England. Her six novels included A Description of Millenium Hall (1762), which idealized her utopian ideals. Although they lost popularity in the 19th century, Sarah Scott's works have recently been reprinted.

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Group read: Millenium Hall by Sarah Scott en Virago Modern Classics (junio 2015)

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A description of Millenium Hall por Sarah Scott

quite boring but i realize it's interesting to read something written in 1762.

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mahallett | 3 reseñas más. | Oct 16, 2015 |

Millenium Hall (Virago modern classics) por Sarah Scott

https://kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2015/06/04/a-female-utopia/

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kaggsy | 3 reseñas más. | Jun 4, 2015 |

Millennium Hall (VMC) por Sarah Scott

Published in 1762, Millennium Hall describes a utopian society of women living much more autonomously than was the norm at that time. The women of Millennium Hall are all unmarried, and the circumstances of their arrival often were related to the death of a father or other source of financial support. The novel is loosely drawn from events in author Sarah Scott's life. Scott's father failed to provide her with financial support and, after separating from her husband (an extremely rare event in those days), she lived with a close female friend as part of a community of intellectuals seeking social reform.

The novel is made up of a series of narratives telling the stories of various women at Millennium Hall. It is written in a didactic style, intended to provide "moral instruction" to the reader -- and specifically, male readers. While some of the women's stories were interesting, the preachy tone and flowery language wore on me after a while.

I read this as part of a project in the Virago Modern Classics group, to read VMCs in original order of publication. The group read helped me appreciate this book for its place in the history of women's writing, but I can't say I enjoyed it.… (más)