The Rise and Fall of the Woman of Letters
The Rise and Fall of the Woman of Letters
About this book
"The Rise and Fall of the Woman of Letters tells the little-known story of women writers in the eighteenth century - of poets, critics, dramatists and scholars celebrated in their own time but all but forgotten by the beginning of the new century." "In a book which ranges from country house to Grub Street, Norma Clarke recovers these writers, establishes the reasons for their eclipse and discovers that a room of one's own in the eighteenth century was a likely to be a prison cell as a boudoir."--Jacket.
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- OL Work ID
- OL4788702W
Subjects
English literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticismEnglish literature, women authorsEnglish literature, history and criticism, 18th century