
Adventures of a Victorian actor
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What's the Best Piece of Emily's Writing?
She wrote a weekly column for australia's largest newspaper. For 11 years she was their london correspondent. Often it was about her personal life, or the latest party that she'd been to. She also wrote a sensational memoir which caused such a stir. Her novel put forward the idea that women and men’s sexual desire is equal. Women should not be stigmatized a for having maratal a encounters. Men who have affairs should be outed and made public. Mistresses should be made public and not stigmatized. Any babies born illegitimately should have the same legal right as legitimate children - am and ye.
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