The Rights Of Women By Keara Murphy: Feminism

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Keara Murphy is a comedian, writer, and play writer. Murphy’s writings mainly focus on Robert Burns, she considers herself a specialist on Burns’ Women. She incorporates humor into her writing which makes the writings more appealing to the reader. Murphy’s writing most focuses on the women that surrounded Robert Burns throughout his life. With mass articles that interpret Robert’s views on women Murphy helps introduce Robert as a limelight.
Murphy adds the right amount of comedic value and knowledge of Robert Burns into each of her articles. Murphy’s insight on Robert Burns being a feminist helps instruct on why Burns wrote The Rights of Women. To include a modern thing like feminist and 1700s literature Keara intertwines each subject sufficiently

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