Author : Gina Luria Walker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 47,75 MB
Release : 2024-10-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1040250262
Mary Hays was a radical feminist whose writings brought her to the attention of her contemporaries William Blake, Thomas Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin. Her Female Biography is an ambitious and acclaimed work, covering the lives of 294 women.
Author : Gina Luria Walker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 43,33 MB
Release : 2024-10-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 104023366X
Mary Hays was a radical feminist whose writings brought her to the attention of her contemporaries William Blake, Thomas Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin. Her Female Biography is an ambitious and acclaimed work, covering the lives of 294 women.
Author : Sue McPherson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 16,22 MB
Release : 2024-08-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 104023948X
By the close of the eighteenth century, the theatrical memoir had become a popular and established genre. This ten-volume facsimile collection presents the lives of some of the most celebrated actresses of their day. These memoirs also provide insights into contemporary constructions of gender, sexuality and fame.
Author : Gina Luria Walker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 36,13 MB
Release : 2024-10-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1040250300
This volume is a review of the autobiographical account Mary Hays, Female Biography; or, Memoirs of Illustrious and Celebrated Women, of All Ages and Countries (1803), Volume III, which sheds light on the controversial role of the female writers in the early nineteenth century.
Author : Gina Luria Walker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 16,8 MB
Release : 2017-10-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1351265180
Mary Hays worked alone in compiling the 302 entries that make up Female Biography (1803). By contrast, producing a modern, critical edition of the work relied on the expertise of 168 scholars across 18 countries. Essays in this collection focus on the exhaustive research, editorial challenges and innovative responses involved in this project.
Author : Gina Luria Walker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 37,46 MB
Release : 2024-10-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1040233805
This book is fifth of the six-volume modern scholarly edition on the stories of real women's experiences. Written by the autodidact Mary Hays, it attests to the existence of active, learned and powerful women who produced new knowledge and made genuine contributions to cultural capital.
Author : Gina Luria Walker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 20,28 MB
Release : 2024-10-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1040250955
This book is second volume of Mary Hays's Female Biography; a scholarly edition on the stories of real women's experiences, such as those of Elizabeth Bland and Boadecia. It attests to the existence of active, learned and powerful women who produced new knowledge and contributed to cultural capital.
Author : Sue McPherson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 12,67 MB
Release : 2024-08-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 104023626X
By the close of the eighteenth century, the theatrical memoir had become a popular and established genre. This ten-volume facsimile collection presents the lives of some of the most celebrated actresses of their day. These memoirs also provide insights into contemporary constructions of gender, sexuality and fame.
Author : Marilyn Butler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 37,36 MB
Release : 2019-09-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1000749495
Presents scholars, students and general readers with the major fiction for adults, much of the best of juvenile fiction, and a selection of the educational and occasional writings of Maria Edgeworth. MARIA EDGEWORTH was born in 1768. Her first novel, Castle Rackrent (1800) was also her first Irish tale. The next such tale was Ennui (1809), after which came The Absentee, which began life as an unstaged play and was then published (in prose) in Tales of Fashionable Life (1812), as were several of her other stories. They were followed in 1817 by the last of her Irish tales, Ormond. Maria Edgeworth died in 1849. Edited with an introduction and notes by Marilyn Butler.
Author : Sue McPherson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 49,31 MB
Release : 2024-10-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1040247806
By the close of the eighteenth century, the theatrical memoir had become a popular and established genre. This ten-volume facsimile collection presents the lives of some of the most celebrated actresses of their day. These memoirs also provide insights into contemporary constructions of gender, sexuality and fame.
