Author: S. Austin AllibonePublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
“A” Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century
Author: S. Austin AllibonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century
Author: Samuel Austin AllibonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased
Author: Samuel Austin AllibonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1150
Book Description
A Supplement to Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors
Author: John Foster KirkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
The Nineteenth Century and After
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Category : Nineteenth century
Languages : en
Pages : 1066
Book Description
Governess
Author: Ruth BrandonPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802779751
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Between the 1780s and the end of the nineteenth century, an army of sad women took up residence in other people's homes, part and yet not part of the family, not servants, yet not equals. To become a governess, observed Jane Austen in Emma, was to "retire from all the pleasures of life, of rational intercourse, equal society, peace and hope, to penance and mortification for ever." However, in an ironic paradox, the governess, so marginal to her society, was central to its fiction-partly because governessing was the fate of some exceptionally talented women who later wrote novels based on their experiences. But personal experience was only one source, and writers like Wilkie Collins, William Makepeace Thackeray, Henry James, and Jane Austen all recognized that the governess's solitary figure, adrift in the world, offered more novelistic scope than did the constrained and respectable wife. Ruth Brandon weaves literary and social history with details from the lives of actual governesses, drawn from their letters and journals, to craft a rare portrait of real women whose lives were in stark contrast to the romantic tales of their fictional counterparts. Governess will resonate with the many fans of Jane Austen and the Brontës, whose novels continue to inspire films and books, as well as fans of The Nanny Diaries and other books that explore the longstanding tension between mothers and the women they hire to raise their children.
A Life in Letters
Author: F. Scott FitzgeraldPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684195704
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 535
Book Description
These missives, which range from brief telegrams to lengthy gospels, are divided into five sections by years and major episodes in Scott's life, e.g., "Europe, The Great Gatsby: 1924-1930."
Publishers' circular and booksellers' record
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1626
Book Description
The Victorian Governess Novel
Author: Cecilia Wadsö LecarosPublisher:
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
An investigation of the Victorian governess novel as a specific genre. Based on a comprehensive set of nineteenth-century novels, governess manuals, articles and biographical material, it shows how the Victorian Governess novel made up a vital part of the governess debate, as well as of the more general debate on female education.
