· Millenium Hall. In at the age of twenty-seven Sarah Scott published her first novel, a conventional romance. A year later she left her husband after only a few months of marriage and devoted herself thereafter to writing and to promoting such causes as Offer Count: 3. · Author. Scott, Sarah, Title. A Description of Millenium Hall. And the Country Adjacent Together with the Characters of the Inhabitants and Such Historical Anecdotes and Reflections As May Excite in the Reader Proper Sentiments of Humanity, and Lead the Author: Scott, Sarah, A neglected utopian novel that provides a feminist history lesson, Millenium Hall is essentially a collection of four short stories. The stories tell how the inhabitants came to create and populate an experimental society, while in-between each tale the reader learns of the day-to-day life there and of the charitable deeds the female-led society does for the neighboring communities/5.
A Description of Millenium Hall And the Country Adjacent Together with the Characters of the Inhabitants and Such Historical Anecdotes and Reflections As May Excite in the Reader Proper Sentiments of Humanity, and Lead the Mind to the Love of Virtue was written by Sarah Scott ( - ). In Sarah Scott's Millenium Hall (), based a little on her life with Lady Barbara Montagu after she had separated from her husband, a group of women create a feminine utopia caring for the elderly, the poor, the sick and the handicapped. The commu nity is mainly made up of women who have suffered from men and it is more sentimental, less. In one tale, a woman about to be ravished by a man is saved, literally by the hand of God, as her attacker dies of a stroke. Millenium Hall was Sarah Scott's most significant novel. Interest in it has revived in the 21st century among feminist literary scholars.
Author. Scott, Sarah, Title. A Description of Millenium Hall. And the Country Adjacent Together with the Characters of the Inhabitants and Such Historical Anecdotes and Reflections As May Excite in the Reader Proper Sentiments of Humanity, and Lead the Mind to the Love of Virtue. Language. 1) The women of Millennium Hall are obsessed with cleanliness, purity and virtue. The women’s clothes are described as having “the same neatness and the same “cleanliness.”. The girls’ clothes are described as “extremely white and clean” (13). Even the architecture is depicted as “perfectly clean.”. For instance, the narrator describes the chairs as made of “wood as white as possible” and states that “perhaps there was never a garden so neat” (). A neglected utopian novel that provides a feminist history lesson, Millenium Hall is essentially a collection of four short stories. The stories tell how the inhabitants came to create and populate an experimental society, while in-between each tale the reader learns of the day-to-day life there and of the charitable deeds the female-led society does for the neighboring communities.
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