Author: George William Manby
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Category : Clifton (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
An Historic and Picturesque Guide from Clifton, Through the Counties of Monmouth, Glamorgan, and Brecknock, with Representations of Ruins, Interesting Antiquities, &c. &c
Author: George William Manby
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clifton (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clifton (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
The Celebrated Elizabeth Smith
Author: Lucia McMahon
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813947871
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Elizabeth Smith, a learned British woman born in the momentous year 1776, gained transnational fame posthumously for her extensive intellectual accomplishments, which encompassed astronomy, botany, history, poetry, and language studies. As she navigated her place in the world, Smith made a self-conscious decision to keep her many talents hidden from disapproving critics. Therefore, her rise to fame began only in 1808, when her posthumous memoir appeared. In this elegantly written biography, Lucia McMahon reconstructs the places and social constellations that enabled Smith’s learning and adventures in England, Wales, and Ireland, and traces her transatlantic fame and literary afterlife across Britain and the United States. Through re-telling Elizabeth Smith’s fascinating life story and retracing her posthumous transatlantic fame, McMahon reveals a larger narrative about women’s efforts to enact learned and fulfilling lives, and the cultural reactions such aspirations inspired in the early nineteenth century. Although Smith was cast as "exceptional" by her contemporaries and modern scholars alike, McMahon argues that her scholarly achievements, travel explorations, and posthumous fame were all emblematic of the age in which she lived. Offering insights into Romanticism, picturesque tourism, celebrity culture, and women’s literary productions, McMahon asks the provocative question, "How many seemingly exceptional women must we uncover in the historical record before we are no longer surprised?"
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813947871
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Elizabeth Smith, a learned British woman born in the momentous year 1776, gained transnational fame posthumously for her extensive intellectual accomplishments, which encompassed astronomy, botany, history, poetry, and language studies. As she navigated her place in the world, Smith made a self-conscious decision to keep her many talents hidden from disapproving critics. Therefore, her rise to fame began only in 1808, when her posthumous memoir appeared. In this elegantly written biography, Lucia McMahon reconstructs the places and social constellations that enabled Smith’s learning and adventures in England, Wales, and Ireland, and traces her transatlantic fame and literary afterlife across Britain and the United States. Through re-telling Elizabeth Smith’s fascinating life story and retracing her posthumous transatlantic fame, McMahon reveals a larger narrative about women’s efforts to enact learned and fulfilling lives, and the cultural reactions such aspirations inspired in the early nineteenth century. Although Smith was cast as "exceptional" by her contemporaries and modern scholars alike, McMahon argues that her scholarly achievements, travel explorations, and posthumous fame were all emblematic of the age in which she lived. Offering insights into Romanticism, picturesque tourism, celebrity culture, and women’s literary productions, McMahon asks the provocative question, "How many seemingly exceptional women must we uncover in the historical record before we are no longer surprised?"
The Annual review and history of literature, A. Aiken ed
Author: Arthur Aikin
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 996
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 996
Book Description
The Annual Review and History of Literature
Author:
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 1002
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 1002
Book Description
A Catalogue of English, Welsh, Scotch, and Irish History and Topography: Including Nearly the Whole of the Printed Books Relating to Saxon History and Literature; to which are Added, the Monastic Historians and the Old Chroniclers, Followed by the Various Histories, ... Relating to this Kingdom. ... The Whole Forming Part III. ... Offered at the Reduced Prices Affixed
Author: William Strong
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Catalogue of the Hoare Library at Stourhead, ... Wilts. To which are added, an Account of the Museum of British Antiquities, a Catalogue of the Prints and Drawings, and a Description of the Mansion, by the late Sir R. C. Hoare, Bart. (Memoir of Sr. R. C. Hoare, ... partly written by himself.-Chronological list of the works of Sir R. C. Hoare.).
Author: John Bowyer NICHOLS
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 822
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 822
Book Description
Catalogue of the Hoare Library at Stourhead, Co. Wilts
Author: Sir Richard Colt Hoare
Publisher:
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Category : Antiquities
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquities
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description
Annual Review, Or, Register of Literature
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 984
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 984
Book Description
Catalogue of Books ...
Author: William Brown
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Catalogue of the Books in the Manchester Free Library
Author: Manchester Public Libraries (Manchester, England)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 1670
Book Description
"The Catalogue ... has been prepared with a view to accomplish two objects. One, to offer an inventory of all the books on the shelves of the Reference Department of the Manchester Free Library: the other, to supply ... a ready Key both to the subjects of the books, and to the names of the authors." - v. 1, the compiler to the reader.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 1670
Book Description
"The Catalogue ... has been prepared with a view to accomplish two objects. One, to offer an inventory of all the books on the shelves of the Reference Department of the Manchester Free Library: the other, to supply ... a ready Key both to the subjects of the books, and to the names of the authors." - v. 1, the compiler to the reader.