The Rise and Fall of the Woman of Letters

Clarke, Norma

ISBN 10: 071266467X / ISBN 13: 9780712664677

Edité par Pimlico,, 2004

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Paperback. 390pp. Includes chapters on Elizabeth Elstob, the eighteenth century Anglo-Saxon scholar, George Ballard, author of Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain (1752), Anna Seward (Romantic poet known as the Swan of Litchfield), Elizabeth Singer Rowe, Clara Reeve, Mary Hays, Anne Finch, Eliza Heywood, Sarah Fielding, Jane Barker, Anna Barbauld, Delarivier Manley, Aphra Behn, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Alexander Pope, Catherine Cockburn, etc. Pages are lightly tanned. Slight curling to corners. Very clean and sound. Good+, sound copy.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Rise and Fall of the Woman of Letters
• Éditeur: Pimlico,
• Date de parution: 2004
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 071266467X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780712664677
• Reliure: Paperback
• État de l'article: Good+, sound copy

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Synopsis

If Aphra Benn is widely regarded as the first important woman writer in English, who was the second? In literary history, the eighteenth century belongs to men: Pope and Swift, Richardson and Fielding. Asked to name a woman, even the specialist stumbles. Jane Austen? She didn't publish until 1811. Aphra Benn herself? She died in 1869.

The Rise and Fall of the Woman of Letters tells the remarkable but little-known story of women writers in the eighteenth century - of poets, critics, dramatists and scholars celebrated in their own time but all but forgotten by the beginning of the new century.

Eliza Haywood, Catherine Cockburn, Elizabeth Elstob, Delarivier Manley, Elizabeth Rowe, Jane Barker, Elizabeth Thomas, Anna Seward... In a book which ranges from country house to Grub Street, Norma Clarke recovers these and other writers, establishes the reasons for their eclipse and discovers that a room of one's own in the eighteenth century was as likely to be a prison cell as a boudoir.

À propos de l?auteur

Educated at the Universities of Lancaster, London, and Kent, Norma Clarke is a Research Fellow in the English Department, Kingston University, and an Honorary Research Fellow in the History Department, Royal Holloway College, University of London. She is the author of five novels for children, numerous articles and several books, including Ambitious Heights (1990) and Dr Johnson's Women (2000).