Memoirs of the literary ladies of England, from the commencement of the last century
Author : Mrs. Anne Katharine ELWOOD
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Page : 342 pages
File Size : 36,14 MB
Release : 1843
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Author : Mrs. Anne Katharine ELWOOD
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Page : 342 pages
File Size : 36,14 MB
Release : 1843
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Author : Anne Katharine Curteis Elwood
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Page : 126 pages
File Size : 11,74 MB
Release : 1845
Category : Authors, English
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Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,57 MB
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ISBN : 3385125901
Author : Sir Adolphus William Ward
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Page : 550 pages
File Size : 14,78 MB
Release : 1914
Category : English literature
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Author : Sara Delamont
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 21,85 MB
Release : 2012-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1136248242
This collection of papers draws on insights from social anthropology to illuminate historical material, and presents a set of closely integrated studies on the inter-connections between feminism and medical, social and educational ideas in the nineteenth century. Throughout the book evidence from both the USA and UK shows that feminists had to operate in a restricting and complex social environment in which the concept of "the lady" and the ideal of the saintly mother defined the nineteenth-century woman’s cultural and physical world.
Author : Harriet Devine Jump
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 18,45 MB
Release : 2020-04-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1000748294
This volume sheds light on contemporary perception of William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, a biographically and intellectually compelling literary family of the Romantic period. The writings reveal the personalities of the subjects, and the motives and agendas of the biographers.
Author : Juliette Atkinson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 18,44 MB
Release : 2010-08-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0191591432
In 1939, Virginia Woolf called for a more inclusive form of biography, which would include 'the failures as well as the successes, the humble as well as the illustrious'. She did so in part as a reaction against Victorian biography, deemed to have been overly preoccupied with 'Great Men'. Yet a significant number of Victorians had already broken ranks to write the lives of humble, unsuccessful, or neglected men and women. Victorian Biography Reconsidered seeks to uncover and assess this trend. The book begins with an overview of Victorian biography followed by a reflection on how the bagginess of nineteenth-century hero-worship enabled new subjects to emerge. Biographies of 'hidden' lives are then scrutinized through chapters on the lives of humble naturalists, failed destinies, minor women writers, neglected Romantic poets rescued by Victorian biographers, and, finally, the Dictionary of National Biography. In its conclusion, the book briefly discusses how Virginia Woolf absorbed earlier biographical trends before redirecting the representation of 'hidden' lives. Victorian Biography Reconsidered argues that, often paradoxically, nineteenth-century biographers regarded the public sphere with intense wariness. At a time of instability for men of letters, biographers embraced the role of mediators in a manner that asserted their own cultural authority. Frequently, they showed little interest in vouchsafing immortality for their unknown or forgotten subjects, but strove instead to provoke amongst their readers a feeling of gratitude for the hidden labour that sustained the nation and an appreciation for the writers who had brought it to their attention.
Author : Henry Sidney of Romney
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Page : 424 pages
File Size : 42,78 MB
Release : 1843
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Author : Lawrence Barnet Phillips
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Page : 1038 pages
File Size : 40,11 MB
Release : 1871
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Author : Joanne Wilkes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 25,96 MB
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1134776950
Focusing particularly on the critical reception of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot, Joanne Wilkes offers in-depth examinations of reviews by eight female critics: Maria Jane Jewsbury, Sara Coleridge, Hannah Lawrance, Jane Williams, Julia Kavanagh, Anne Mozley, Margaret Oliphant and Mary Augusta Ward. What they wrote about women writers, and what their writings tell us about the critics' own sense of themselves as women writers, reveal the distinctive character of nineteenth-century women's contributions to literary history. Wilkes explores the different choices these critics, writing when women had to grapple with limiting assumptions about female intellectual capacities, made about how to disseminate their own writing. While several publishing in periodicals wrote anonymously, others published books, articles and reviews under their own names. Wilkes teases out the distinctiveness of nineteenth-century women's often ignored contributions to the critical reception of canonical women authors, and also devotes space to the pioneering efforts of Lawrance, Kavanagh and Williams to draw attention to the long tradition of female literary activity up to the nineteenth century. She draws on commentary by male critics of the period as well, to provide context for this important contribution to the recuperation of women's critical discourse in nineteenth-century Britain.