'The Most Dangerous Talent': Riddles as Feminine Pastime

Mary Chadwick

doi:10.3138/9781442689985-012

'The Most Dangerous Talent': Riddles as Feminine Pastime

Mary Chadwick

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These unnatural stories have the worst possible effects on your minds. The imagination that can produce such things must be extremely gross and bar-barous; they mark the Gothicism of the rudest ages, and not only divert your study and aĴention from real life but embarrass your affections with fictions and ideas not only of no use, but seriously pernicious, as they inflame the passions and tincture both the fancy and the heart with extravagance and romance. Tell Tale, The Lady’s Monthly Museum (392)

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Women, Popular Culture, and the Eighteenth Century
Editors	Tiffany Potter
Publisher	University of Toronto Press
Chapter	10
Pages	185-201
Number of pages	17
ISBN (Electronic)	9781442689985
ISBN (Print)	9781442641815
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442689985-012
Publication status	Published - 30 Aug 2012
Externally published	Yes

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