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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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A new and general biographical dictionary: containing an historical, critical, and impartial account of the lives and writings of the most eminent persons in every nation in the world ... A new edition, etc
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Publisher:
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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A new and general biographical dictionary: containing an historical, critical, and impartial account of the lives and writings of the most eminent persons in every nation in the world ... A new edition, etc
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Mary Hays (1759-1843)
Author: Gina Luria Walker
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351125850
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Mary Hays, reformist, novelist, and innovative thinker, has been waiting two hundred years to be judged in a fair, scholarly, and comprehensive way. During her lifetime and long after, her role in the ongoing reformist debates in England at the end of the eighteenth century, intensified by the French Revolution, served as a lightening rod for opponents who attacked her controversial stance on women's intellectual competence and human rights. The author's intellectual history of Hays finally makes the case for her importance as an innovator. She was a feminist thinker who advanced notions of tolerance that included women, an educator who broke new ground for female autodidacts, a philosophical commentator who translated Enlightenment ideas for a burgeoning female audience, a Dissenting historiographer who reinvented 'female biography,' and a writer of deliberately experimental fiction, including the roman à clef Memoirs of Emma Courtney. The author approaches Hays from several disciplinary perspectives-historical, biographical, literary, critical, theological, and political-to elucidate the multiple ways in which Hays contributed and responded to, and influenced and was influenced by, the most significant issues and figures of her time.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351125850
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Mary Hays, reformist, novelist, and innovative thinker, has been waiting two hundred years to be judged in a fair, scholarly, and comprehensive way. During her lifetime and long after, her role in the ongoing reformist debates in England at the end of the eighteenth century, intensified by the French Revolution, served as a lightening rod for opponents who attacked her controversial stance on women's intellectual competence and human rights. The author's intellectual history of Hays finally makes the case for her importance as an innovator. She was a feminist thinker who advanced notions of tolerance that included women, an educator who broke new ground for female autodidacts, a philosophical commentator who translated Enlightenment ideas for a burgeoning female audience, a Dissenting historiographer who reinvented 'female biography,' and a writer of deliberately experimental fiction, including the roman à clef Memoirs of Emma Courtney. The author approaches Hays from several disciplinary perspectives-historical, biographical, literary, critical, theological, and political-to elucidate the multiple ways in which Hays contributed and responded to, and influenced and was influenced by, the most significant issues and figures of her time.
The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975
Author: British Library (London)
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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A new and general biographical dictionary: containing an historical, critical, and impartial account of the lives and writings of the most eminent persons in every nation in the world ... A new edition, etc
Author: William TOOKE (the Elder.)
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 716
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 716
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A New and General Biographical Dictionary
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Languages : en
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Languages : en
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The Winterthur Museum Libraries Collection of Printed Books and Periodicals: Rare book catalog. Auction catalogs. Shaker collection
Author: Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum. Libraries
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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A New and General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 8
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Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781333416942
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Excerpt from A New and General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 8: Containing an Historical, Critical, and Impartial Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation in the World, Particularly the British and Irish, From the Earliest Accounts of Time to the Present Period He continued in Ireland till the end of 1693, when he was or dered for England without any reafon afiigned: but a letter informed him, that he was to be governor to the earl of Portland's fon. Having never had any thoughts of this nature, he could not imagine to whom he owed the recommendation, but at laf't found it to be lord Galway. He immediately went to London, and entered upon this charge but quitted all hopes of thofe preferments in the army, which feveral of his fellow-officers foon after attained. All the la vour {hewn him was, that he had leave to relign his commi ion to his younger brother, who died in 1719, after having been made lieutenant-colonel in a regiment of Englilh (li'agoons. Indeed the king gave him a penfion of looi. Per annum, which he enjoyed during the king's life, after which it was taken from him, and a poll of fmall value given him in its (lead. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781333416942
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Excerpt from A New and General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 8: Containing an Historical, Critical, and Impartial Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation in the World, Particularly the British and Irish, From the Earliest Accounts of Time to the Present Period He continued in Ireland till the end of 1693, when he was or dered for England without any reafon afiigned: but a letter informed him, that he was to be governor to the earl of Portland's fon. Having never had any thoughts of this nature, he could not imagine to whom he owed the recommendation, but at laf't found it to be lord Galway. He immediately went to London, and entered upon this charge but quitted all hopes of thofe preferments in the army, which feveral of his fellow-officers foon after attained. All the la vour {hewn him was, that he had leave to relign his commi ion to his younger brother, who died in 1719, after having been made lieutenant-colonel in a regiment of Englilh (li'agoons. Indeed the king gave him a penfion of looi. Per annum, which he enjoyed during the king's life, after which it was taken from him, and a poll of fmall value given him in its (lead. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
A New and General Biographical Dictionary
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