Author: Mary RobinsonPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Memoirs of the Late Mrs. Mary Robinson, 2
Author: Mary RobinsonMemoirs of the Late Mrs. Robinson Written by Herself, 2
Author: Mary RobinsonMemoirs of the Late Mrs. Robinson
Author: Mary RobinsonWomen's Theatrical Memoirs, Part I Vol 1
Author: Sue McphersonPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040246168
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
By the close of the Eighteenth Century, the theatrical memoir had become a popular and established genre. This ten-volume facsimile collection offers accounts of the late eighteenth-century stage, which provide insights into contemporary constructions of gender, sexuality and fame.
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Author: Luther Samuel LivingstonPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
The Works of Mary Robinson, Part II vol 5
Author: William D BrewerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000749568
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 471
Book Description
Regularly the subject of cartoonists and satirical novelists, Mary Robinson achieved public notoriety as the mistress of the young Prince of Wales (George IV). Her association with figures such as William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, and comparisons with Charlotte Smith, make her a serious figure for scholarly research.
Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing in Wales
Author: Jane AaronPublisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 0708322875
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The first volume in the new series Gender Studies in Wales, this book argues that the way in which people came to perceive and to represent themselves as Welsh was profoundly affected by the gender ideologies prevalent during the Romantic and Victorian periods. "Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing in Wales: Nation, Gender and Identity" introduces readers to a hundred Welsh women authors at work during the years 1780-1900, some writing in Welsh and some in English. In so doing, it rescues many of these authors from critical neglect and oblivion. In the second half of the nineteenth century in particular, Welsh women writers in both languages were numerous and enjoyed a degree of influence on Welsh culture easily commensurate with that of women writers today. By covering the nineteenth century chronologically, this book traces the coming into being of the Welsh nation as its women in particular saw it, and as they helped to create it.
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Author: Luther Samuel LivingstonPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Bluestockings Displayed
Author: Elizabeth EgerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521768802
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
The first academic and interdisciplinary volume exploring bluestocking portraiture, performance and patronage in eighteenth-century Britain, opening vistas for future scholarship.
Perdita
Author: Paula ByrnePublisher: Random House
ISBN: 0307431606
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
This thoroughly engaging and richly researched book presents a compelling portrait of Mary Robinson–darling of the London stage, mistress to the most powerful men in England, feminist thinker, and bestselling author, described by Samuel Taylor Coleridge as “a woman of undoubted genius.” One of the most flamboyant free spirits of the late eighteenth century, Mary Robinson led a life that was marked by reversals of fortune. After being abandoned by her merchant father, who left England to establish a fishery among the Canadian Eskimos, Mary was married, at age fifteen, to Thomas Robinson. His dissipation landed the couple and their baby in debtors’ prison, where Mary wrote her first book of poetry, gaining her the patronage of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. On her release, Mary rose to become one of the London theater’s most alluring actresses, famously playing Perdita in The Winter’s Tale for a rapt audience that included the Prince of Wales, who fell madly in love with her. Never one to pass up an opportunity, she later used his ardent and numerous love letters as blackmail. After being struck down by paralysis, apparently following a miscarriage, she remade herself yet again, this time as a popular writer who was also admired by the leading intellectuals of the day. Filled with triumph and despair, and then triumph again, the amazing, multifaceted life of “Perdita” is marvelously captured in this stunning biography.