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The Rise and Fall of the Woman of Letter
By Norma Clarke
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Description
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.
Product details
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Edition:
- 1
- Number of Pages:
- 402
- Release Date:
- 2004-05-27
- Publication Date:
- 2004-05-27
- Publisher:
- Pimlico
- Languages:
- Original: English
- ISBN10:
- 071266467X
- ISBN13:
- 9780712664677
- GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
- [email protected]
- Weight:
- 669 g
- Height:
- 15.3 cm
- Width:
- 23.4 cm
- Thickness:
- 2.4 cm
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