The Celebrated Hannah Cowley
The Celebrated Hannah Cowley

Author: Angela Escott

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-10-06

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1317323467

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Hannah Cowley (1743–1809) was a very successful dramatist, and something of an eighteenth-century celebrity. New critical interest in the drama of this period has meant a resurgence of interest in Cowley’s writing and in the performance of her plays. This is the first substantial monograph study to examine Cowley’s life and work.

Women in Print
Women in Print

Author: Alison Adburgham

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2012-05-15

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 0571295258

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'This book should be regarded as rescue work. It salvages from pre-Victorian periodicals from the limbo of forgotten publications, and exhumes from long undisturbed sources a curious collection of women who, at a time when it was considered humiliating for a gentlewoman to earn money, contrived to support themselves by writing, editing, or publishing... sometimes even supporting husbands and children as well... The women who emerge make a motley gallery; but over the years that I have been getting to know them, they have won my respectful affection. More, indeed. To me they are all heroines...' Alison Adburgham, from her Foreword Magazines addressed to women have a long history in English, and have been subject to condescension for just as long. Alison Adburgham's groundbreaking volume, first published in 1972, rescues the so-called 'scribbling female' from such scorn, not least by documenting just how hard was the struggle for women writers to live by the pen.

Beyond the metropolis
Beyond the metropolis

Author: Katy Layton-Jones

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2016-02-19

Total Pages: 363

ISBN-13: 1784996610

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Draws on previously unexplored visual and ephemeral sources to re-evaluate the British city, its changing form, representation and impact.