Before Victoria
Subtitle: extraordinary women of the British Romantic era
By: by Elizabeth Campbell Denlinger ; foreword by Lyndall Gordon.
Contributors: New York Public Library.
Publisher: New York Public Library; Columbia University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
Subjects: Women -- Great Britain -- Biography; Great Britain -- History -- 1789-1820 -- Biography; Great Britain -- History -- 1800-1837 -- Biography; Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 18th century; Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century; Great Britain -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-180) and index.
"Published on the occasion of the exhibition, Before Victoria: extraordinary women of the British Romantic era, presented at the New York Public Library, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, D. Samuel and Jeane H. Gottesman Exhibition Hall, April 8-July 30, 2005"--T.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: Mary Robinson, eighteeth-century romantic; title: Exemplary women : Mary Wollstonecraft, Hannah More, and their worlds; title: Not quite good enough : three imperfect lives; title: The modern Venus, or improper ladies, and others; title: Strong passions of the mind : women in literature and the visual arts; title: Rational dames and ladies on horseback : scientists and travelers; title: The youngest romantics; title: The Pforzheimer Collection and its female inhabitants : an afterword.