| Descript |
390 p. |
| Contents |
1: Anna Seward, bluestocking -- Leaving a name in life's visit -- Becoming a writer -- Resisting matrimony -- The swan of Lichfield -- 2: The female right to literature -- The female mind -- Elizabeth Elstob and George Ballard -- Memoirs of British ladies -- 3: Mid-century models: recovery, eulogy and silence -- Merit in distress -- The 'very respectable' Mrs Elizabeth Rowe -- The feminiad -- Eliza Haywood -- Clara Reeve and The progress of romance -- Translation and the national language: Reeve, Carter, Elstob -- 4: Thinking back through our mothers -- A room of one's own -- Sarah Fielding's Remarks on Clarissa -- The character of an author -- Elizabeth Thomas -- Martha Fowke Sansom's Clio -- The love of dear pen and ink -- 5: 'Philomela', 'Orinda' and others -- 'Philomela' and the Athenian mercury: the past life of Mrs. Rowe -- The 'matchless Orinda': model female poet -- Other models: Margaret Cavendish and Aphra Behn -- The liberties of freeborn Englishwomen -- Jane Barker -- Elizabeth Singer: early development of a poet -- 6: Marriage and love -- Elizabeth Singer and Matthew Prior -- Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea 00 Generous sentiments and elegant desires -- Mrs Rowe's Devout exercises of the heart -- 7: Susannah Centlivre and Catharine Trotter -- Platonic ladies -- A poetical she-philosopher -- 8: Lived experience -- Delarivier Manley's Rivella -- Jane Barker's histories of 'Galesia' -- Mary Davys and real events -- Laetitia Pilkington's memoirs -- 9: Readings and representations -- Being remembered -- Catharine Cockburn reads Pope -- Catharine Cockburn reads Elizabeth Thomas -- The life of Corinna -- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Pope -- 10: Using the past -- The female author -- Hackneyed forms -- Anna Barbauld -- Exhibiting the soul of the author -- Mary Hays -- The shame of being singular: The memoirs of Emma Courtney -- Letters for literary ladies. |
| ISBN |
071266467X |
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9780712664677 |
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