Author: Gary Kelly
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 104024971X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 333
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Feminist scholarship and criticism has retrieved the Bluestocking women from their marginal position in 18th-century literature. This work collects the principal writings of these women, together with a selection of their letters. Each volume is annotated and all texts are edited and reset.
Author: Susan Paterson Glover
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317029283
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Susan Paterson Glover here presents, in modern type, a critical edition of the first printed work by an English woman writer, Sarah Chapone, on the inequity of the common law regime for married women. Glover's extended, original introduction provides an account of Chapone's life; a discussion of the influence of Mary Astell's work on Chapone's thought and work; and a review of the legal status of women in England's eighteenth century, with particular attention to marriage and the doctrine of coverture and the relations of women, law, and property. It concludes by acknowledging the importance of this text to any consideration of the evolution of a discourse of "rights" for women in the Anglo–American legal tradition, and its contribution to a movement for property rights and women's equality whose genesis is generally located in the legislative changes of the nineteenth century. The edition contains valuable appendices including, among other writings, excerpts from Chapone's correspondence with Samuel Richardson; excerpts of responses to Chapone's work from the Weekly Miscellany; and excerpts from contemporary legal literature. Also included is an annotated text of Chapone's pamphlet on the Muilman controversy, Remarks on Mrs. Muilman's Letter to the Right Honourable The Earl of Chesterfield (London, 1750).
Author: Barbara Eaton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781903427705
Category : Women social reformers
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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Barbara Eaton's delightful biography has restored Chapone to her rightful place... a vivid portrait of Chapone as both 'spitfire' and dutiful daughter, earnest moralist and irreverent satirist. Hester Chapone, an early bluestocking, was born in 1727. When tragedy hit her marriage she was left in debt and turned to writing for money. In 1773 Letters on the Improvement of the Mind was published and became a bestseller until well into the 19th Century. Highly influential in the education of girls it was mentioned by Sheridan in The Rivals, Thackeray in Vanity Fair, and by Jane Austen as Edmund's model for Fanny's education in Mansfield Park.
Author: Mrs. Chapone (Hester)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Author: Susannah Gibson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393881393
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice An illuminating group portrait of the eighteenth-century women who dared to imagine an active life for themselves in both mind and spirit. In England in the 1700s, a woman who was an intellectual, spoke out, or wrote professionally was considered unnatural. After all, as the wisdom of the era dictated, a clever woman—if there were such a thing—would never make a good wife. But a circle of women called the Bluestockings did something extraordinary: coming together in glittering salons to discuss and debate as intellectual equals with men, they fought for women to be educated and to have a public role in society. In this intimate and revelatory history, Susannah Gibson delves into the lives of these pioneering women. Elizabeth Montagu established one of the most famous salons of the Bluestocking movement, with everyone from royalty to revolutionaries clamoring for an invitation to attend. Her younger sister, Sarah Scott, imagined a female-run society and created a women’s commune. Meanwhile, Hester Thrale, who also had a salon, saved her husband’s brewery from bankruptcy and, after being widowed, married a man she loved—Italian, Catholic, and not of her social class. Other women made a name for themselves through their publications, including Catharine Macaulay, author of an eight-volume history of England, and Frances Burney, author of the audacious novel Evelina. In elegant prose, Gibson reveals the close and complicated relationships between these women, how they supported and admired each other, and how they sometimes judged and exploited one another. Some rebelled quietly, while others defied propriety with adventurous and scandalous lives. With moving stories and keen insight, The Bluestockings uncovers how a group of remarkable women slowly built up an eviscerating critique of their male-dominated world that society was not yet ready to hear.
Author: Mrs. Chapone (Hester)
Publisher: William Pickering
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 718
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Languages : en
Pages : 486
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Author: Hester Chapone
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108021727
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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A collection of letters and a biography illustrating the character of writer Hester Chapone (1727-1801), first published in 1807.
Author: James Raven
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521023238
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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This collection of fourteen essays highlights both the singularity of personal reading experiences and the cultural conventions involved in reading and its perception.
Author: Robert Chambers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 846
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