Author: Phillips (London)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Auction catalogue, books of Lady Blessington, 7 to 26 May 1849
Author: Phillips (London)Early Victorian Portraits: Text
Author: National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle
Author: The Athenaeum
Author: British Books
Author: Book-prices Current
Author: John Herbert SlaterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature
Author: The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature
Author: Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750-1850
Author: Devoney LooserPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801887054
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
This groundbreaking study explores the later lives and late-life writings of more than two dozen British women authors active during the long eighteenth century. Drawing on biographical materials, literary texts, and reception histories, Devoney Looser finds that far from fading into moribund old age, female literary greats such as Anna Letitia Barbauld, Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Catharine Macaulay, Hester Lynch Piozzi, and Jane Porter toiled for decades after they achieved acclaim -- despite seemingly concerted attempts by literary gatekeepers to marginalize their later contributions. Though these remarkable women wrote and published well into old age, Looser sees in their late careers the necessity of choosing among several different paths. These included receding into the background as authors of "classics," adapting to grandmotherly standards of behavior, attempting to reshape masculinized conceptions of aged wisdom, or trying to create entirely new categories for older women writers. In assessing how these writers affected and were affected by the culture in which they lived, and in examining their varied reactions to the prospect of aging, Looser constructs careful portraits of each of her Subjects and explains why many turned toward retrospection in their later works. In illuminating the powerful and often poorly recognized legacy of the British women writers who spurred a marketplace revolution in their earlier years only to find unanticipated barriers to acceptance in later life, Looser opens up new scholarly territory in the burgeoning field of feminist age studies.
French Book-plates
Author: Walter HamiltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bookplates
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description