Essays by leading scholars provide a comprehensive overview of women writers and their work in Restoration and eighteenth-century Britain.
John Genest, Some Account of the English Stage from the Restoration in 1660 to 1830, 10 vols. (Bath: H.E. Carrington, 1832), Vol. 3, p. 120. Bridget Orr, Empire on the English Stage, 1660–1714 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ...
... Clasp with fond arms, and mix their kisses sweet” – and even “icy bosoms feel the secret fire! ... Rhetorically, they link sexual liberty to natural freedom: women enjoy being outdoors and they resemble nature in their vitality and ...
The Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in Britain, 1660-1789. Ed. Catherine Ingrassia. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), 164-79. Pearson, Jacqueline. The Prostituted Muse: Images of Women and Women Dramatists 1642-1737.
The book is clearly divided into three sections, covering: how women learnt to write and how their work was circulated or published; how and what women wrote in the places and spaces in which they lived, worked, and worshipped; and the ...
NOTES 1. “Mrs. Thomson's Life of George Villiers,” Saturday Review 243.9 (June 23, 1860), 815–16. 2. Harriet Martineau ... Harriet Martineau, Autobiography, 2 vols. ... Collected Letters of Harriet Martineau, 5 vols., ed.
Catherine Ingrassia, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in Britain, 1660–1789. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. xxix + 263. REVIEWED BY SUZANNE L. BARNETT ...
She also served as an editor for the anthologies Eighteenth-Century English Labouring-Class Poets (Pickering & Chatto, ... Countess of Winchilsea, comprising Volume 1: Early Manuscript Books and Volume 2: Later Collections, ...
Hawkins, A. R. (ed), Romantic Women Writers Reviewed, 9 vols (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011–13). ... The Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in Britain, 1660–1789 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015). Jacobus, M. (ed.) ...
Henry Fielding and the Heliodoran Novel. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1986. Mace, Nancy A. Henry Fielding's Novels and the Classical Tradition. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1996. McCrea, Brian.
Laura Quinney is Professor of English at Brandeis University and International Chair Professor at National Taipei University of Technology. She is the author of Literary Power and the Criteria of Truth (1995), The Poetics of ...