Women's Life Writing, 1700-1850
Women's Life Writing, 1700-1850

Author: D. Cook

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-04-13

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1137030771

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This collection discusses British and Irish life writings by women in the period 1700-1850. It argues for the importance of women's life writing as part of the culture and practice of eighteenth-century and Romantic auto/biography, exploring the complex relationships between constructions of femininity, life writing forms and models of authorship.

The Spectator
The Spectator

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Publisher:

Published: 1861

Total Pages: 1452

ISBN-13:

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A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.

Mistress of Udolpho
Mistress of Udolpho

Author: Rictor Norton

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 1999-05-01

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1847142699

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This is the biography of the Gothic novelist, Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823), author of "The Mysteries of Udolpho", the world's first "best seller". The text clarifies Radcliffe's emergence from a Dissenting Unitarian, rather than a conventional Anglican, background. This places Radcliffe within the circle of other women writers nurtured in radical Dissenting backgrounds (such as Wollstonecraft, Hays, Inchbauld and Barbauld). Radcliffe's childhood and family background are documented and the rumours of her madness and reclusiveness investigated leading to an evaluation of the resons for her probable mental breakdown. The text constitutes a "cultural history" of a writing woman, demonstrating her place within radical culture, literary tradition and aesthetic discourse, and examining her role in the rise of the professional woman writer. Her novels are analyzed mainly in the context of her biography and sources.

Autobiography of Miss Cornelia Knight
Autobiography of Miss Cornelia Knight

Author: Ellis Cornelia Knight

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-02-16

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 1108044867

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This two-volume Autobiography by Cornelia Knight (1757-1837), Lady Companion to Princess Charlotte, was compiled by Sir John Kaye and published in 1861. In Volume 2, Knight continues her account of her later life in European court circles. An appendix gives further extracts from Knight's journals and her 'anecdote book'.