Dictionary of British and American Women Writers, 1660-1800 Tapa blanda - 1987

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London: Methuen. Very Good. 1984. New Edition. Soft Cover. 8vo 0416066429 Studies In English Literature This dictionary, consisting of almost 500 short essays on major and minor British and American women writers, is a major contribution to the field of women's literature...Recommended for undergraduate or graduate libraries, especially those serving women's studies programs. CHOICE ...the first reference that has collected in one place information on the lives and works of women who were writing during the extraordinarily productive period from 1660 to 1800...it serves as an important foundation for further literary and women's studies scholarship. .

Methuen, 1987. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Tight, Unmarked, Unworn.

Methuen & Company, Limited. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

London: Methuen,. Paperback. 344pp. Nearly 500 biographical entries.  Neat but slightly faded. Faint scratch to front. Very good copy. . Paperback. 1987.

London: Methuen,. Paperback. 344pp. Nearly 500 biographical entries.  Neat but slightly faded. Very good copy. . Paperback. 1987.

Methuen & Co. Ltd, London, first UK edition, 1987. Illustrated laminated wrappers, 8vo,. xxiv, 344 pp. From the blurb: "..despite repressive attitudes toward female assertiveness, women writers flourished in every stratum of eighteenth-century society - aristocratic, working, and middle class - through an extensive network of female, and occasionally male, patronage. The years 1660 to 1800 were an extraordinary period in the history of feminine authorship. Writing became for the first time a respectable occupation rather than a sign of loose morals. These fascinating biographies show that many gifted women, while adapting to the constraints of eighteenth-century life, led unusual, often independent, and occasionally flamboyant lives as struggling novelists, actresses and playwrights, male impersonators, royal mistresses, or persecuted Quaker preachers. This dictionary, the first of its kind, describes the lives and contributions of almost 500 women writers, seen in the new light of recent… Leer más

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Law Book Co of Australasia, 1987-09-03. Paperback. Like New.

London: Methuen & Company. Very Good. 1987. 1st Paperback Edition. Softcover. 0416066429 . Corners lightly bumped. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 344 pages; 25282 .