Before Victoria : extraordinary women of the British Romantic era /
Combining literary and cultural history, this richly illustrated volume brings back to life a remarkable, though frequently overlooked, group of women who transformed British culture during the Romantic era and inspired new ways of understanding feminine roles and female sexuality. Often working fro...
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New York Public Library : Columbia University Press,
[2005]
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Table of Contents:
- Mary Robinson, eighteeth-century romantic
- Exemplary women : Mary Wollstonecraft, Hannah More, and their worlds
- Not quite good enough : three imperfect lives
- The modern Venus, or improper ladies, and others
- Strong passions of the mind : women in literature and the visual arts
- Rational dames and ladies on horseback : scientists and travelers
- The youngest romantics
- The Pforzheimer Collection and its female inhabitants : an afterword.
