A Damp Love

Jack was bewitched at Marry’s intelligence. She was a brave woman who broke the

chains that her father bounded her with years ago. Her father, a fierce and sordid man in his

late forties was a good-heartened but also ,according to Mary, was created to exploit the

weaker people abd bow the ones who were superior to them. John Smithson—Mary’s

father— was a bourgeois. He started to work when he was kid and gained a lot of money in

his twenties by importing goods to England. Although he didn’t belong to a high social class,

his ambition was everlasting and he tried every way to get a earn a respectable place in the

society. When his life in England unsatisfied him and he heard how well business in Jamaica

was, he immediately made his mind and decided to go to Jamaica. Of course, he also wanted

to have desceendants who would last his surname, so he searched a good, qualified wife for

himself and found one. She was his boss’s daughter, her father was too old nad her brothers

were killed in the war between France and Britain. There was no doubt that she would inherit

her father’s wealth and was the perfect match for John. After the two got married, John

arranged everything and they set off for Jamaica. He had bought a small sugar factory in

Jamaica before getting on the ship and sailing to Jamaica. He could imagine himself getting

extremely rich and living in places better than the noblemen. Eventually he got richer, cruel

and wealthy at the same time. In 1769, he already had a great mansion by the Caribbean Sea

and governesses for his kids.

A Nest

The year was 1780. It again was a foggy day in London and the room stayed with her

lover just reflected the mood of the city in those days. It was dark, dump and “ghosts” lurking

in the shadows. She had never felt that uncomfortable in her life before. The times were

blurry and the unexpected always followed in the dark stairs of a derelict apartment building.
Nowhere was safe, nobody was trustworthy and moral. Taxes were forced on the citizens –not

including the clergy and the nobility—because of the war that broke out in the new world.

Americans rebelled against Britain in 1775 when they levied more taxes. (bbc.co.uk)

Naturally, the war expenses multiplied and the peasants, workers had to make up this money

on behalf of George III. Mary was a literal “thinker” she was writing and thinking the

condition that the country was in. ---------

Country for No Man

While the footsteps of a revolution were being heard, life in England was unbearable

for the Third Estate. The people who belonged neither to the noble class nor the clergy. In this

turmoil, Mary was happy irregardless of the unpriveleged life that she led with jack in an old

apartment building in London. She would go anywhere with jack. This time she was going to

France, to the fountain of knowledge. The main reason for them to leave the country was the

men of Sir George and the second one was the great enlightenment era that France was

experiencing. In Jamaica Mary was taught French and Latin by her governesses. Her

governess was a young woman, named, Abbey and she had a free soul. When she left

Jamaica, she left Mary the work of well-known French authors, it was the beginning of

Mary’s quest for a better world. Mary read many French authors including Voltaire, Rousseau

and Descartes after her family returned to Britain due to the unfortunate incident they had in

Jamaica.

Mary Smithson always wanted to live in the country that they were born in. Even

though nearly all of them were discontended at France’s ruling system, laws, the church and

so on so forth. Despite everything, the “commons” were about the overthrow the king and

establish a new kind of system in France. Jack and Mary had been contemplating the

possibility of moving to France and getting out of the way of Sir George. Sir George was a
baron but his influence was enough to kill Jack if Mary was caught with him. In the streets of

London, not only robbery but murder was common too. Since Sir George was a rich man who

has inherited the wealth and land of his family. He was respected and related to the nobility,

hiring a guy to kill Jack was not hard. Even though this was what Mary and Jack thought,

there was more about Sir John. He was one of many heads of the mobs in London. He had

several men whom he had the control of. He would provide money for the mob and save them

from the verdict of death in the courthouse if they were caught. False witnesses were also

making good money in those days.

The first time Sir George saw Mary was when he visited John Smithson in his modest

house near London. It was spring and Mary was reading a book in the garden with her back

on the grass and her long skirt scattered on the ground. George immediately realized that she

was Mary, whose father already decided on their marriage. Mary would get a noble title by

getting married to Sir George and he would be a richer man. However, life was about to fool

them.

An Underrated Gender

Mary Smithson was a fairly well-educated young lady in her seventeen. Her father was

a very ambitious tradesman who came from an unwealthy family that he never wanted to

mention. Mary was always fond of her father bacause he would always protect her Though

her father was very fond of her but always had a rebellious streak. In the first eyars that she

solved how to read, she was already bored of the usual stories. She wanted the truth all the

time and was ready to pay the prize.

Jack was a young and fearless gentleman who was only 22 years old and was studying

medicine. The reason he wanted to study medicine was to be able to help people. Jack and his
friends would gather in cheap coffee shops of London where authors would also meet and

discuss their beliefs, views in politics. In July 1778, at 9.00 p.m, there were around fifteen

university students around the table. At some point, a silence fell upon all of them as a

reaction to the entrance of two young ladies into the coffee shop. These ladies were not

welcomed in that many men but found two available seats for themselves and introduced

themselves as young authors. Later that night, it was revealed that one of them was eighteen-

year-old Mary and the other one was her friend Rose whose brother was a medicine student

and a firm defender of human rights. It was Rose’s brother who rought them to the coffee

shop. Neaarly all of the students ignored these two ladies but the ladies paid a visit to their

discussions. Jack was getting more and more curious about why these ladies were not at their

houses but wanderin London street at late hours. After three months, he made an excuse and

got invited to Rose’s brother’s place. After hours of talking, studying, Jack finally asked the

reason why Mary was staying with them and not living her life just like any other gentle

young lady but -------------

Women were considered to be inferior to men in every field of life. There were

authors or intellectuals who flattered women but none these men actually meant that women

and men were equal. Women were able to flirt, raise children and take care of household.

They were adored but never valued. Mary loved reading books and especially philosophical

ones, she was amazed by the nature and abilities human kind. As she got older, she also

wanted to read

When she was a little kid she had felt convenient in the midst of palm trees and the

immense sea view at their fabuluous mansion in Jamaica. The mansion was in georgian style.

She always felt safe in her mother’s loving arms and several people whirling around her. She

was the the centre of attention as the youngest children after her sister.
Losing the Butterflies

It was around 12.00 am and only the ones awake in the Barton Street were the

unversity students discussing heavily the matters of monarchy, nobility, the bad condition that

the country and the people are in. The talking, discussing never ceased in this coffee house in

the midst of London’s dark and damp neighbourhoods. Barking doogs and stinking horse

manure were one two first things that greeted you when you stepped out of a building. It was

the first that Mary had ever been to such an intellectually challenging place. There were her

cousin’s friends from medical school and some other friends of him who were broke writers

and literates. She got a knot in the pit of her stomach when she was about to be introduced to

the crowd around the little table in the coffee house

When Marry became a young woman full of consciousness, her prior concerns were

about the people around the world, famine, and the inequality between mankind. Later on, she

realized that even among the lowest classes there were other inequalities. Women always had

the biggest share of inequalities in the world. Mary came to this realization first when she was

sixteen, her nurse maid was a woman around her fifties. She was skinny but always found the

strength to carry Marry around their enormously big mansion. The garden was full of blue

lignums, palm trees and all the other tropical trees, plants. Mary always felt safe in her maids

arms while whirling in the magical garden of the mansion. This extreme feeling of

convenience and comfort lasted till she was nine years old.

The year 1769 was not the most eventful year in Jamaica, the invaders had

encountered far greater rebellions in 1690, and it was the year that blood was shed.

Nonetheless, this year was going to be really eventful for Smithson family. The laborers in
Marry’s father’s factory were about to upheaval. The life conditions that they were living in

were disastrous. Chopping off sugar canes, carrying the canes to the factory on their back,

they had to stripe the sugarcanes by hand. The young ones were sturdy and ambitious because

they always hoped that if they worked hard enough someday they would have houses on the

shore lines like the ones white men have. This dream would warm them inside and they could

work for hours. On the other hand, the Jamaican workers who were above twenty-five had no

hopes. They already had kids and seeing their children being sick of malnutrition broke their

hearts and working ability as well. However, no matter what they had to work because the

factory had to keep on functioning. Otherwise, John Smithson –the bright bourgeoisie –

would send his “loyal” men to the factory and get them all whipped out. Eventually, all of

them worked and produced on behalf of the great boss. The idea of protesting their lives, their

working standards were not something planned ahead of time. They actually never thought of

it as an insurrection but simply a need to express their anger, sorrow. Drusilla was a laborer in

his late twenties and one of the many who worked for John Smithson. One day he found one

of his kids dead and his wife weeping over their kid. This was not the first time it ever

happened and blood rushed to his brain. He came to a realization that the ones who caused his

kid’s death had to be punished. The first thing that came to his mind was going and killing the

household in his masters’ mansion, but then this would be his end and he thought for hours

what to do. Finally, with the help of other worn out folks among the laborer slaves he decided

to kidnap the beloved daughter of John Smithson. This task was challenging even for an

ordinary and seemingly impossible for a laborer. However,

Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining

They arrived in a cage in France. The coulds in the sky were blurry but vigorous,

maybe the clouds were affected by the revolutionary sprit in France. The journey from
England to France was not easy bur rather challenging. They lost the track of how many

carriages they have been to or how many times they were afraid to lose their lives by a mad

robber. On the ship, it was not very different from the road. The difference was that the ship

was tremendously crowded because bought the cheapest tickets in order to disguise

themselves. Sir George’s “loyal” men might have been still

Olympe de Gouges was a well-known, liberalist and reformist woman author of her

time and her name heard more when she published (womenshistory) her “Declaration of the

Rights of Woman and of the Citizen” in 1791. She was not coming from a wealthy family like

Mary does but their paths were about to converge. When Mary and jack arrived in France,

they went to Paris to Jack’s cousin –Leone. Leone was also a medicine student who has been

into politics and been to social clubs supporting the Third Estate and trying to make the voices

of the poor hear. For a few days they stayed with Leone but they came to realize their need for

a free space to live in without Jack’s cousin. They were going to meet Olympe in her

apartment very soon and Mary was very excited to show Olympe her work. Mary was also an

author defending equal rights for all mankind no matter which class they belong to and similar

to Olympe she also defended that women are no less than men as intellectually. From the days

she witnessed how women were powerless in Jamaica, she no longer valued her life for her

life was meaningless in all its convenience and safety. She wanted to be beneficial for people

–especially women—who were suppressed by the others.

Jack used to be a believer in human rights as Mary but he had never thought of

women’s rights before he met Mary. He was in love for her beauty at first but later she saw

the bright light in her heart and he was enlightened in every second he spent with her.

A Proud End
After the nation overthrew Louis and his wife Marie Antoinette, they were behaving

recklessly. The anger that accumulated inside them for years were rising to the surface now.

Jacobin Club was getting more and more powerful each day by maintaining a very broad

netweork and their supporters were reckless enough to take lives to preserve this newly

established system in France. (turkishculture) After the constitutiın was ended and they put an

end to monarchy, the country was in a more fragile situation because everybody knew that a

revolution

In prehistory and iron age till the end of Byzantin Empire and funding of Ottoman

empire, women were seen as the centre of life and the protector of the bloodline. Mary was

bewildered when she learnt this fact and kept on reading about the women in ancient times. In

her writings she eferred to Anatolian women and their power on the nation. Unfortunately she

had none of her work published but kept on writing for hours when Jack was out working in a

hospital where the peasants and revolts who were hurt by the army were staying. Jack would

come home ın late hours and Mary had nothing to do but reading and writing. In the course of

time that she spent in France, she had a lot of time without a company. This sense of

loneliness pushed her into writing an fiction work about a utopic country. Her work mostly

icluded the significance of human rights and the status of genders in the society. In contrast to

Sophie in Rousseau’s Emile or Moll Flanders in Defoe’s, the woman figure in Mary’s work

was independant and her sole mission was not to fullfill men’s lives but taking a role in life.

She argues that women were more devoted and hard-working than men because took care

both their husband and their children. Mary named the ideal woman “Beata” in her

arguments. Beata was a strong woman who was not in need of a male to protect her and had

her own dagger to use if needed. She was keen on defending herself to the point that she

could. Beata attempted to have an occupation outside of the house and make her own living.
She was despised for so many times and she finnaly disguised herself in men clothing and

imitated a manly voice. In that day, in a funny way, she became a representative for people

and even got a place at the House of Commons and made her voice heard, albeit as a man.

Furthermore, she was so successful that she was chosen the prime minister and put an end to

all violence in the country. Mary created the character “Beata” to imply her arguments such as

the fact that women were much more sensitive tha men in all matters and could provide a

peaceful atmosphere in the world in case they ruled.

While Mary was creating new universes in her writings, Jack was very much

down to the earth, coping with the sick at the hospital. Even so, he never gave up reading

Mary’s work. He even edited some of it, but at dong so he was always asking himself this

question: “Whhere is her magical ability in writing leading us to?”

In one of her articles, Mary wrote “Men are afraid of the potential that women have

and they have no choice but to use their physical ability to abuse and exploit women.” She

was about publish an anthology of her articles. The deal that she made with the publisher was

not revealing her name and just distrubiting this work as the work of some nameless writer.

They all decided that this was the best for her, otherwise she would put herself at stake. In

those days, nothing

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