Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750-1850

by Devoney Looser

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0801887054

ISBN13:9780801887055

Release Date:September 2008

Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press

Length:252 Pages

Weight:1.10 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 5.9" x 9.1"

Related Subjects

Criticism & Theory History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature & Fiction Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Social Science Social Sciences Women Writers Women's Studies

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