The Rise and Fall of the Woman of Letters
Publisher: Pimlico
Published: July 27, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780712664677
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 16th to 18th centuries; Women's studies; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Women; Biography & Autobiography / Women; ENGLISH LITERATURE_HISTORY AND CRITICISM_18TH CENTURY; ENGLISH LITERATURE_WOMEN AUTHORS; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / Letters; General; 18th century; English literature; History and criticism; Vrouwelijke auteurs.; Women Authors; gtt
Description: "The Rise and Fall of the Woman of Letters tells the little-known story of women writers in the eighteenth century - of poets, critics, dramatists and scholars celebrated in their own time but all but forgotten by the beginning of the new century." "In a book which ranges from country house to Grub Street, Norma Clarke recovers these writers, establishes the reasons for their eclipse and discovers that a room of one's own in the eighteenth century was a likely to be a prison cell as a boudoir."--Jacket.