Author: Frances Anne Beaufort EdgeworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
A Memoir of Maria Edgeworth
Author: Frances Anne Beaufort EdgeworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
A Memoir of Maria Edgeworth
Author: Frances Anne Beaufort EdgeworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
A Reader's Guide to the Choice of the Best Available Books (about 50,000) in Every Department of Science, Art & Literature, with the Dates of the First & Last Editions, & the Price, Size & Publisher's Name of Each Book
Author: William Swan SonnenscheinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 880
Book Description
The Academy
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.
Rosamond
Author: Maria EdgeworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The Academy and Literature
Author: The Best Books: a Readers Guide to the Choice of the Best Available Books (about 50.000)...
Author: William Swan SonnenscheinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
Poet Lore
Author: The Works of Maria Edgeworth, Part II Vol 11
Author: Marilyn ButlerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000749509
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 493
Book Description
Presents scholars, students and general readers with the major fiction for adults, much of the best of juvenile fiction, and a selection of the educational and occasional writings of Maria Edgeworth. MARIA EDGEWORTH was born in 1768. Her first novel, Castle Rackrent (1800) was also her first Irish tale. The next such tale was Ennui (1809), after which came The Absentee, which began life as an unstaged play and was then published (in prose) in Tales of Fashionable Life (1812), as were several of her other stories. They were followed in 1817 by the last of her Irish tales, Ormond. Maria Edgeworth died in 1849. Edited with an introduction and notes by Marilyn Butler.