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The Platonick Lady
Author: The Platonick Lady
Author: Susanna CetlivreThe Platonic Wife. A comedy ... By a Lady Elizabeth Griffiths
Author: The Rise and Fall of the Woman of Letters
Author: Norma ClarkePublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446444988
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
If Aphra Benn is widely regarded as the first important woman writer in English, who was the second? In literary history, the eighteenth century belongs to men: Pope and Swift, Richardson and Fielding. Asked to name a woman, even the specialist stumbles. Jane Austen? She didn't publish until 1811. Aphra Benn herself? She died in 1869. The Rise and Fall of the Woman of Letters tells the remarkable but little-known story of women writers in the eighteenth century - of poets, critics, dramatists and scholars celebrated in their own time but all but forgotten by the beginning of the new century. Eliza Haywood, Catherine Cockburn, Elizabeth Elstob, Delarivier Manley, Elizabeth Rowe, Jane Barker, Elizabeth Thomas, Anna Seward... In a book which ranges from country house to Grub Street, Norma Clarke recovers these and other writers, establishes the reasons for their eclipse and discovers that a room of one's own in the eighteenth century was as likely to be a prison cell as a boudoir.
Rochester
Author: Marianne ThormählenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521440424
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
A major new study of the notorious Restoration rake-poet, set in his intellectual context.
The Wonder: A Woman keeps a Secret
Author: Susanna CentlivrePublisher: Good Press
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 86
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The Wonder: A Woman keeps a Secret by Susanna Centlivre is a delightful comedy play that revolves around the entangled lives of its witty and resourceful characters. Centlivre's sharp dialogue and clever plotting create a delightful mix of mistaken identities, romantic entanglements, and humorous misunderstandings. Set in a world where secrets abound, The Wonder explores themes of love, trust, and the power dynamics between men and women. With its lively banter and delightful twists, this play guarantees a night of laughter and entertainment.
The Lady's Curiosity
Author: Nestor DruidThe Works Of The Celebrated Mrs. Centlivre
Author: Susannah CentlivreLove's contrivance. Busy body. Marplot. Plantonick lady. Perplex'd lovers. Cruel gift
Author: Susanna CentlivreThe Platonick Lady. a Comedy
Author: Susanna CentlivrePublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781721027392
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Languages : en
Pages : 260
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The platonick lady. A comedy Centlivre, Susanna The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.