The voyage in: fictions of female development
"In the beginning there was. the beginning. And with the beginning came the power to tell a story. Few book-length studies of narrative beginnings exist, and not one takes a feminist perspective. Opening Acts reveals the important role of beginnings as moments of discursive auth…
Mary Robinson, a fantastic beauty and popular actress, and once lover of the Prince of Wales, received the epithet 'the English Sappho' for her lyric verse. Amelia Opie, a member of the fashionable literary society and later a Quaker, included amongst her friends Sydney Smith, B…
"Mary Robinson, fantastic beauty, popular actress, and once lover of the Prince of Wales, received the epithet 'the English Sappho' for her lyric verse. Amelia Opie, a member of the fashionable literary society and later a Quaker, included among her friends Sydney Smith, Byron, …
"Mary Robinson, fantastic beauty, popular actress, and once lover of the Prince of Wales, received the epithet 'the English Sappho' for her lyric verse. Amelia Opie, a member of the fashionable literary society and later a Quaker, included among her friends Sydney Smith, Byron, …
Lady Mary Wroath - Anne Weamys - Katherine Philips - Eliza Haywood - Sarah Fielding - Charlotte Lennox - Elizabeth Inchbald - Ann Radcliffe- Mary Wollstonecraft - Fanny Burney - Maria Edgeworth - Amelia Opie - Mary Brunton.
Lady Mary Wroath - Anne Weamys - Katherine Philips - Eliza Haywood - Sarah Fielding - Charlotte Lennox - Elizabeth Inchbald - Ann Radcliffe- Mary Wollstonecraft - Fanny Burney - Maria Edgeworth - Amelia Opie - Mary Brunton.
A LITERATURE OF THEIR OWN quickly set the stage for the creative explosion of feminist literary studies that transformed the field in the 1980s. Launching a major new area for literary investigation, the book uncovered the long but neglected tradition of women writers and the de…