Devoted to the study of women from 1660 to 1817 (the so-called 'long' 18th century).
A major task confronting today's scholars is the reclamation from near oblivion of a multitude of works of art, literature, music, scholarship, and other creative enterprises by eighteenth-century women. This...
Devoted to the study of women from 1660 to 1817 (the so-called 'long' 18th century).
Wetherell, Charles, Andrejs Plakans and Barry Wellman (1994) 'Social Networks, Kinship, and Community in Eastern Europe', in Journal of Interdisciplinary History ...
This collection gathers essays that build upon this premise and examines the ways in which eighteenth-century women defied not only the restrictions their own culture sought to enforce, but also the restrictions our historical and literary ...
The Eighteenth-century Woman
By making this material more widely available, Women in the Eighteenth Century complements the current upsurge in feminist writing on eighteenth-century literary history and offers students the opportunity to make their own rereadings of ...
"First published as an Oxford World's Classics paperback 2001"--T.p
This book examines the careers and working lives of celebrated artists like Angelica Kauffman and Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun but also of those who are now forgotten.
Two books by Linda Kelly, Juniper Hall and Susanna, the Captain and the Castrato, draw extensively on her correspondence, ... of Newcastle aimed to publish electronically a complete edition of Susanna's letters (some 650,000 words).
Sarah Fyge Egerton , To One who said I must not Love , in Egerton , Poems on Several Occasions , 42 . 47. For details of her life , see Medoff , " New Light on Sarah Fyge , " 155-75 . 48. Ibid . , 171-72 ; it appears that Manley visited ...