Before Victoria : Extraordinary Women of the British Romantic Era.

Before Victoria : Extraordinary Women of the British Romantic Era.

Combining literary and cultural history, this richly illustrated volume brings back to life a remarkable, though frequently overlooked, group of women who transformed British culture during the Romantic era and inspired new ways of understanding feminine roles and female sexuality. Often working fro...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Denlinger, Elizabeth
Other Authors: Wagner, Stephen
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
1700-1899
Women > Great Britain > Biography.
Social conditions
Women
Great Britain > History > 1789-1820 > Biography.
Great Britain > History > 1800-1837 > Biography.
Great Britain > Social conditions > 18th century.
Great Britain > Social conditions > 19th century.
Great Britain > Biography.
Great Britain
Biographies
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Chapter 1. Mary Robinson, Eighteenth-Century Romantic; Chapter 2. Exemplary Women: Mary Wollstonecraft, Hannah More, and their Worlds; Chapter 3. Not Quite Good Enough: Three Imperfect Lives; Chapter 4. The Modern Venus, or, Improper Ladies and Others; Chapter 5. Stronger Passions of the Mind: Women in Literature and the Visual Arts; Chapter 6. Rational Dames and Ladies on Horseback: Scientists and Travelers; Chapter 7. The Youngest Romantics; The Pforzheimer Collection and its Female Inhabitants: An Afterword; Notes.

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