A History of Women's Writing in Italy
Contributors: Letizia Panizza (Editor); Sharon Wood (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 29, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9780521570886
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Women's studies; Women and literature; Italy; History and criticism; Social Science; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Italian; Sociology; European - Italian; Gender Studies; Italian literature--Women authors--History and criticism; Social Science / Gender Studies; Women authors; Intellectual life; Italian literature; Women
First sentence: In ancient Greece the invention of the epistolary genre was attributed to a woman, a queen from the East with the name of Atossa.