Set in the eighteenth century, it's startling. If her character were in the 1960s and sexually free, it would not be that interesting. I mean, Mary Wollstonecraft wrote about feminism, I guess, in the nineteenth century, but it's extremely radical. RW: Yes, well, almost, almost impossible, but not quite. Glamour: Yes, it just struck me as being sort of unusual… She has all of these very modern ideas for a woman of her time. She doesn’t have any sense of sexual shame she doesn’t want to just be a wife and a possession. She believes she’s sexually free and can sleep with whom she wants to without feeling any guilt.
RW: As you know, the book was written in the mid-twentieth century, so she has a post-Freudian, early feminist take on being a woman, which is kind of startling in the mid-nineteenth century. She wants to have her own agency, to not only be controlled by the men in her life. Glamour: It's something of a surprisingly modern character.
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