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Joanna Baillie A Selection of Poems and Plays

Joanna Baillie: A Selection of Poems and Plays

1st Edition

By Amanda Gilroy
April 15, 2002

This work includes Joanna Baillie's important poems and critical prefaces, the tragedies "De Montfort" and "Basil", and the comedy, "The Alienated Manor", together with substantial extracts from her other works....

Impressions of Theophrastus Such

Impressions of Theophrastus Such

1st Edition

By George Eliot
April 29, 2021

George Eliot (1819-80) is one of the most widely-read of the 19th-century novelists and story-writers. "Impressions of Theophrastus Such" appeared in 1879, Eliot's last completed work. It consists of 18 short essays narrated by a middle-aged bachelor, Theophrastus....

The Poems of Aphra Behn A Selection

The Poems of Aphra Behn: A Selection

1st Edition

By Janet Todd
February 06, 2020

Aphra Behn (1640-89) was a popular poet, author of the influential novel Oroonoko, and one of the most successful dramatists of the Restoration theater. Behn led an unusually active and eventful life for a woman of her era, traveling widely--to Surinam in 1663 and to Antwerp in 1666, where Charles ...

Maude by Christina Rossetti, On Sisterhoods and A Woman's Thoughts About Women By Dinah Mulock Craik

Maude by Christina Rossetti, On Sisterhoods and A Woman's Thoughts About Women By Dinah Mulock Craik

1st Edition

By Christina Rossetti
April 15, 2019

"Maude" was written when Christina Rossetti was 19 and examines the heroine's struggle to resist the notion that modesty and domesticity constitute the duties of women. "On Sisterhoods" by Dinah Mulock Craik advocates the encouragement of Anglican sisterhoods....

The Conquest of Rome by Matilde Serao

The Conquest of Rome by Matilde Serao

1st Edition

By Mathilde Serao
April 15, 2019

Matilde Serao (1857-1927) was a successful and prolific journalist and novelist. This book tells the story of the arrival in Rome of a provincial deputy from the poor South. It paints a portrait of political and social life in contemporary Rome....

The History of Lady Sophia Sternheim

The History of Lady Sophia Sternheim

1st Edition

By J Collyer
January 03, 2019

The best-known novel of Sophie von La Roche, a German 18th-century woman writer. The plot reflects typical 18th-century concerns: the value of sentiment and the importance of virtue in attaining a good life. The publication of this novel reflects a recent revival of interest in the author....

Counterfeit Ladies The Life and Death of Moll Cutpurse and the Case of Mary Carleton

Counterfeit Ladies: The Life and Death of Moll Cutpurse and the Case of Mary Carleton

1st Edition

By Elizabeth Spearing
October 01, 1993

Biographies of two 17th-century female criminals, both celebrated in their day. These are the first editions published since the 17th century....

New Atalantis

New Atalantis

1st Edition

By Delarivier Manley
January 24, 2018

An early example of satirical political writing by a woman. The book, with its blend of politics and sexuality, is based on the public and private lives of prominent politicians and society figures of the time....

Cassandra and Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale

Cassandra and Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale

1st Edition

By Florence Nightingale
June 16, 2017

Florence Nightingale is famous as the heroine of the Crimean War and later as a campaigner for medical care founded on a clean environment and good nursing. Suggestions for Thought, which contains the novel Cassandra, is a central text in nineteenth-century history of feminist thought....

Narrative of the Life of Mrs Charlotte Charke

Narrative of the Life of Mrs Charlotte Charke

1st Edition

By Robert M Rehder
June 07, 2017

In this picaresque novel, Charlotte Clarke recalls her life as an actress, and in particular, the difficulties facing a woman trying to make her way in a man's world. The issues of women's writing, education, motherhood, sexuality, and cross-dressing all come under scrutiny....

The Wild Irish Girl

The Wild Irish Girl

1st Edition

By Claire Connolly
May 31, 2017

This novel intervenes in many of the literary and philosophical debates of the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century, forging a connection between the eighteenth-century discourse of sentiment and the emergent nineteenth-century concept of the nation. Lady Morgan's Introductory ...

The Witlings and the Woman Hater

The Witlings and the Woman Hater

1st Edition

By Geoffrey M Sill
March 01, 1997

This edition contains two of Frances Burney's comedies: "The Witlings", (1778-80) which satirizes the bluestockings; and "The Woman Hater" (1800-02), which explores social pretension and gender conflict....

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