The Rise and Fall of the Woman of Letters

Clarke, Norma

ISBN 10: 071266467X / ISBN 13: 9780712664677

Published by Pimlico,, 2004

About this Item

Paperback. 390pp. Includes chapters on Elizabeth Elstob, the eighteenth century Anglo-Saxon scholar, George Ballard, author of Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain (1752), Anna Seward (Romantic poet known as the Swan of Litchfield), Elizabeth Singer Rowe, Clara Reeve, Mary Hays, Anne Finch, Eliza Heywood, Sarah Fielding, Jane Barker, Anna Barbauld, Delarivier Manley, Aphra Behn, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Alexander Pope, Catherine Cockburn, etc. Pages are lightly tanned. Slight curling to corners. Very clean and sound. Good+, sound copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Rise and Fall of the Woman of Letters
• Publisher: Pimlico,
• Publication Date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 071266467X
• ISBN 13: 9780712664677
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good+, sound copy

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Synopsis

The Rise and Fall of the Woman of Letters is a study of Elizabeth Singer Rowe, Elizabeth Carter, Hester Chapone, Mrs, Montagu, Anna Seward, Joanna Baillie, and other women who took on the role of public writers in the age of rapidly evolving print culture. Precocious, witty, learned, and confident, the eighteenth-century woman of letters was a cultural figure who was invited to think and speak with authority. Through an examination of the literary texts produced by the "Bluestockings" and an analysis of the cultural and social changes surrounding the production of theses materials, Norma Clarke looks closely at how the eighteenth-century woman of letters became such an important part of public life, and accounts for why she disappeared.

From the Inside Flap

While many 19th century women writers -- George Eliot, Mrs. Gaskell, the Brontės -- are so well known, the women who paved their way in the 18th century are only now being given the attention they deserve.