ABSTRACT Sarah Stickney Ellis, a popular and prolific writer, is now perhaps best remembered as Victorian England’s foremost “propagandist of domesticity.” Ellis, in her Young Ladies’ Reader (1845) “domesticated” women’s elocution by situating it within the home. Although women occupied the private rather than the public sphere, they nevertheless were responsible for much of England’s national greatness—its distinctive “domestic character.” In The Young Ladies’ Reader, elocution becomes a domestic duty supporting the English home and nation. Ellis restricts women’s reading to the private domain thereby reinforcing rhetoric’s traditional separation of male and female discourse.

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“狡猾的女人”：埃利斯夫人与演说的驯化

摘要 莎拉·斯蒂克尼·埃利斯 (Sarah Stickney Ellis) 是一位广受欢迎且多产的作家，现在也许最令人难忘的是她是维多利亚时代英格兰最重要的“家庭生活宣传家”。埃利斯在她的《年轻女士的读者》（1845 年）中通过将女性的言辞置于家中来“驯化”女性的言谈。尽管女性占据的是私人领域而不是公共领域，但她们仍然对英格兰的国家伟大——其独特的“家庭特征”——负有责任。在 The Young Ladies' Reader 中，演讲成为支持英国家庭和国家的家庭责任。埃利斯将女性的阅读限制在私人领域，从而强化了传统的男性和女性话语分离的修辞。