465 pp., ix. NO edition or printing cited; no number line: presumed first printing. Glossy medium lavender wrappers with Title and Editor names lettering in white letters across top and bottom front cover, respectively, with two Period illustrations of lady scholars in library, discoursing, superimposed upon similar illustration of men in the library, discoursing. One page, p. 59/60, was dog-eared (longtime flat); 6 pp. of Aphra Behn poems [3 poems out of 6] have blue ink underlines and 5 of those 6 have short marginalia, arguably helpful), else book of 465 pp. looks little opened: Tight binding (NO cracks); sharp corners (NO bumps or curls, but for teeny tip outward curls); NO rubbing wear; NO remainder marks; NO previous owner names. Except for 6 pp. of 465 pp., Clean Text. Still Solid Copy. Seller Inventory # 002706

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Title: The "Other" Eighteenth Century: English ...

Publisher: Colleagues Press, East Lansing, MI

Publication Date: 1991

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Near Fine

Edition: 1st Edition

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This anthology of the works of 22 women authors aims to reclaim the tradition of women's writing in England during the period, and helps to restore this tradition to its rightful place in the present-day canon of late 17th- and 18th-century English literature. This book contains the complete works by Mary Astell, Joanna Baillie, Anna Barbauld, Aphra Behn, Elizabeth Carter, Mary Chudleigh, Jane Collier, Hannah Cowley, Judith Drake, Maria Edgworth, Sarah Egerton, Margaret Fell, Anne Finch, Mary Wortley Montagu, Hannah More, Sarah Pennington, Katherine Philips, Elizabeth Rowe, Rachel Russell, Catherine Talbot, Elizabeth Tallot, and Mary Wollstonecroft.

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Retired academic's reference library with specialization in philosophy, religion, science, and mathematics--all scholarly subject areas; Pre-Socratics to contemporary; biographies; some series collections. General stock also, including fiction, poetry, literary criticism, mysteries, some foreign language, children's, history, sociology, psychology, education. Some signed copies.

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