Author: Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
The Eighteenth Century
Author: Education in Edinburgh in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Alexander LawPublisher: London : University of London Press
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
A Book of Golden Deeds
Author: Charlotte Mary YongePublisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Auld Reikie
Author: Robert FergussonLetters of David Hume to William Strahan
Author: David HumePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophers
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
The Compact Scottish National Dictionary: A-M
Author: William GrantPublisher:
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Category : Scots language
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
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.
The Compact Scottish National Dictionary
Author: William GrantPublisher: Scottish National Dictionary Association Limited
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
History of the Chisholms
Author: Alexander MackenziePublisher:
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Category : Chisholm Clan
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The Clan Chisholm is said to descend to have Norman origins and to have come from the borders of Scotland. However, for over six hundred years the clan has been associated with the highlands of Scotland, particularly Inverness, Sutherland, Ross and Caithness.
Author: Sir Thomas Gordon