Sophie Gee
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Just to be a real stickler, I think she doesn't coin it, but she realises that it's a thing.
She plucks it out of various more obscure references and phrases from the 18th century, but she kind of promotes it to a position of importance.
And it was a title change for Austen, wasn't it?
It wasn't just that she knew it was going to be the title.
She changed the title once she came across that phrase.
That's almost my favourite fact, actually.
Well, who have I got?
I've got perhaps the only woman in history of the period who can actually match Fanny Burney's
courage and brilliance and imaginative dairy.
And that's Mary Wollstonecraft, one of my great heroines.
I love Mary Wollstonecraft.
So listeners will remember that Mary Wollstonecraft has come up several times before in this podcast, primarily in our Frankenstein episode, because she's Mary Shelley's mother.