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Women's Lives and the 18th-century English Novel
Language: en
Pages: 291
Authors: Elizabeth Bergen Brophy
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991 - Publisher: University Press of Florida

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Novels of the eighteenth century usually offer wedded bliss as a reward to their heroines. How did these novels affect—and how were they affected by—the wom
Women, Work, and Clothes in the Eighteenth-Century Novel
Language: en
Pages: 271
Authors: Chloe Wigston Smith
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-06-13 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This book charts the novel's vibrant engagement with clothes, examining how fiction revises and reshapes material objects within its pages.
Women in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
Language: en
Pages: 284
Authors: Deborah Simonton
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-12-05 - Publisher: Routledge

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The eighteenth century looms large in the Scottish imagination. It is a century that saw the doubling of the population, rapid urbanisation, industrial growth,
The Delicate Distress
Language: en
Pages: 304
Authors: Elizabeth Griffith
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-10-17 - Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

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Actress, playwright, and novelist, Elizabeth Griffith (1727-1793) won fame in England with the publication in 1757 of the first two volumes of Letters Between H
Eighteenth-Century Women's Writing and the 'Scandalous Memoir'
Language: en
Pages: 124
Authors: Caroline Breashears
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-02-06 - Publisher: Springer

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This book contributes to the literary history of eighteenth-century women’s life writings, particularly those labeled “scandalous memoirs.” It examines ho