Author: Clara Lucas BALFOURPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
A Sketch of Elizabeth Smith
Author: Clara Lucas BALFOURThe Celebrated Elizabeth Smith
Author: Lucia McMahonPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813947871
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Elizabeth Smith, a learned British woman born in the momentous year 1776, gained transnational fame posthumously for her extensive intellectual accomplishments, which encompassed astronomy, botany, history, poetry, and language studies. As she navigated her place in the world, Smith made a self-conscious decision to keep her many talents hidden from disapproving critics. Therefore, her rise to fame began only in 1808, when her posthumous memoir appeared. In this elegantly written biography, Lucia McMahon reconstructs the places and social constellations that enabled Smith’s learning and adventures in England, Wales, and Ireland, and traces her transatlantic fame and literary afterlife across Britain and the United States. Through re-telling Elizabeth Smith’s fascinating life story and retracing her posthumous transatlantic fame, McMahon reveals a larger narrative about women’s efforts to enact learned and fulfilling lives, and the cultural reactions such aspirations inspired in the early nineteenth century. Although Smith was cast as "exceptional" by her contemporaries and modern scholars alike, McMahon argues that her scholarly achievements, travel explorations, and posthumous fame were all emblematic of the age in which she lived. Offering insights into Romanticism, picturesque tourism, celebrity culture, and women’s literary productions, McMahon asks the provocative question, "How many seemingly exceptional women must we uncover in the historical record before we are no longer surprised?"
Elizabeth Smith
Author: Elizabeth SmithFragments in Prose and Verse by Miss Elizabeth Smith
Author: Elizabeth SmithFragments, in Prose and Verse
Author: Elizabeth SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
Elizabeth the Queen
Author: Sally Bedell SmithPublisher: Random House Incorporated
ISBN: 1400067898
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 721
Book Description
A tribute to the life and enduring reign of Elizabeth II draws on numerous interviews and previously undisclosed documents to juxtapose the queen's public and private lives, providing coverage of such topics as her teen romance with Philip, her contributions during World War II and the scandals that have challenged her family. (This book was previously listed in Forecast.)
Fifty Years in Oregon
Author: Theodore Thurston GeerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oregon
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
A Woman with a Purpose
Author: Elizabeth SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Shortt, Elizabeth Smith.
Review of the Life and Fragments of Miss Elizabeth Smith. (Copied from the Christian Observer for August, 1808.).
Author: Miss Elizabeth SMITH (of Burnhall.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Kiki Smith
Author: Elizabeth Ann BrownPublisher: Prestel Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Over the three decades of her career, Kiki Smith has experimented with photography as a working tool, a means of personal expression and simply as a medium in which she can explore space, composition, colour and texture.