] Unmarried women did not face these restrictions but
> they lived under the rule of their fathers' authority, and
> father's (like Frances Burney) might tend to disapprove of
> their daughters risking their modesty, their reputations,
> and possibly their marriagability by publishing.

] What right have they to interfere, really? Take for instance
> Mr. Edgeworth...he made Maria alter the plot of Belinda, so
> as include Virginia's story (all that scrap about Clarence
> Hervey raising a woman to be his wife). And in the third
> edition she made several alterations pursuant to his wishes
> (the black servant Jaba did not longer marry an English
> woman because his father disapproved of miscenegation) and
> Belinda's attachment to Mr. Vincent is made a lesser
> thing...again because her father disaproved of it!

] The nerve! Why didn't the man write a novel himself, if he
> though he had such good ideas?

] ¡Me indigna!