Eliza Fenwick

Author : Lissa Paul
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781644530115

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Eliza Fenwick by Lissa Paul Pdf

This captivating biography traces the life of Eliza Fenwick, an extraordinary woman who paved her own unique path throughout the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as she made her way from country to country as writer, teacher, and school owner. Lissa Paul brings to light Fenwick’s letters for the first time to reveal the relationships she developed with many key figures of her era, and to tell Fenwick’s story as depicted by the woman herself. Fenwick began as a writer in the radical London of the 1790s, a member of Mary Wollstonecraft’s circle, and when her marriage crumbled, she became a prolific author of children’s literature to support her family. Eventually Fenwick moved to Barbados, becoming the owner of a school while confronting the reality of slavery in the British colonies. She would go on to establish schools in numerous cities in the United States and Canada, all the while taking care of her daughter and grandchildren and maintaining her friendships through letters that, as presented here, tell the story of her life. Distributed for the University of Delaware Press

Author : E. Fenwick
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547100645

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Secresy; or, Ruin on the Rock by E. Fenwick Pdf

Sibella Valmont is a young girl trapped in a huge castle by her mysteriously cruellest uncle, Mr. George Valmont, in this exhilarating mystery tale by Eliza Fenwick. Will she find a way to escape the gloomy fortress?

Author : Eliza Fenwick
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1998-10-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1551112167

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Secresy - Second Edition by Eliza Fenwick Pdf

Secresy was Eliza Fenwick’s only work for adults—a fact that may help to explain why this extraordinary novel has been so thoroughly overlooked. On one level this is a book that presents fascinating challenges to traditional structures of class and gender. Whereas Mr. Valmont, the villain of the piece, rejects merely the surface forms of fashionable society, the story of his niece Sibella and her friend Caroline implicitly rejects the substance as well as the trappings of a system that rested on class privilege and on female dependence. Secresy is also, though, a remarkable novel of human relationships: of sexuality (Sibella’s pregnancy is the occasion for the secrecy that gives the book its title), and of romantic love, but also the female friendship between Sibella and Caroline that is very much at the heart of the book. The relationships—and the grand themes—are expressed through an epistolary technique through which Fenwick (in the editor’s words) shows "a breadth of sympathy which can find comedic pleasure even in what is disapproved.”

Author : Eliza Fenwick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Feminism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006986264

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Secresy by Eliza Fenwick Pdf

Author : Gina Luria Walker
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005-12-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 155111559X

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The Idea of Being Free by Gina Luria Walker Pdf

Mary Hays (1759-1843) is often best remembered for her early revolutionary novels The Memoirs of Emma Courtney and The Victim of Prejudice. In this collection, however, Gina Luria Walker reveals the extraordinary range of Hays’s oeuvre. The selections are mainly from Hays’s non-fiction writings, including letters, life-writing, political commentary, and essays. The extracts demonstrate her importance as an advanced and innovative thinker, philosophical commentator, and writer of deliberately experimental fiction. This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and full annotation. Texts by numerous other writers are interleaved chronologically with Hays’s writings to illustrate her idiosyncratic intellectual genealogy, how her understanding modulated over time, and the multiple ways in which she influenced and was influenced by the most significant issues and figures of her age.

Author : Eliza Fenwick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : English letters
ISBN : UCAL:B3567510

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The Fate of the Fenwicks by Eliza Fenwick Pdf

Author : Lissa Paul
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136841972

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The Children's Book Business by Lissa Paul Pdf

By focusing on the children's book business of the long eighteenth-century, €this book€argues that the thinking, knowing children of the Enlightenment are models for the technologically-connected, socially-conscious children of the twenty-first. The increasingly obsolete images of Romantic innocent and ignorant children are bracketed between the two periods.

Author : Claudia Nelson,Julie-Marie Strange,Susan B Egenolf
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2064 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000560879

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British Family Life, 1780–1914, Volume 3 by Claudia Nelson,Julie-Marie Strange,Susan B Egenolf Pdf

The five volumes of this collection focus on various aspects of family life. Drawing on rare printed sources and archival material, this collection will provide a balanced, contextualized picture of family life, during a period of intense social change. It will appeal to scholars of social history, gender studies and the long nineteenth century.

Author : Evelyn O'Callaghan,Tim Watson
Publisher : Caribbean Literature in Transi
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781108475884

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Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1800-1920: Volume 1 by Evelyn O'Callaghan,Tim Watson Pdf

This volume explores Caribbean literature from 1800-1920 across genres and in the multiple languages of the Caribbean.

Author : Andrew O'Malley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319947372

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Literary Cultures and Eighteenth-Century Childhoods by Andrew O'Malley Pdf

The essays in this volume offer fresh and innovative considerations both of how children interacted with the world of print, and of how childhood circulated in the literary cultures of the eighteenth century. They engage with not only the texts produced for the period’s newly established children’s book market, but also with the figure of the child as it was employed for a variety of purposes in literatures for adult readers. Embracing a wide range of methodological and disciplinary perspectives and considering a variety of contexts, these essays explore childhood as a trope that gained increasing cultural significance in the period, while also recognizing children as active agents in the worlds of familial and social interaction. Together, they demonstrate the varied experiences of the eighteenth-century child alongside the shifting, sometimes competing, meanings that attached themselves to childhood during a period in which it became the subject of intensified interest in literary culture.

Author : Fiona Price
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317063308

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Revolutions in Taste, 1773–1818 by Fiona Price Pdf

How and to what extent did women writers shape and inform the aesthetics of Romanticism? Were undervalued genres such as the romance, gothic fiction, the tale, and the sentimental and philosophical novel part of a revolution leading to newer, more democratic models of taste? Fiona Price takes up these important questions in her wide-ranging study of women's prose writing during an extended Romantic period. While she offers a re-evaluation of major women writers such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria Edgeworth, Ann Radcliffe and Charlotte Smith, Price also places emphasis on less well-known figures, including Joanna Baillie, Anna Letitia Barbauld, Elizabeth Hamilton and Priscilla Wakefield. The revolution in taste occasioned by their writing, she argues, was not only aesthetic but, following in the wake of British debates on the French Revolution, politically charged. Her book departs from previous studies of aesthetics that emphasize the differences between male and female writers or focus on higher status literary forms such as the treatise. In demonstrating that women writers' discussion of taste can be understood as an intervention at the most fundamental level of political involvement, Price advances our understanding of Romantic aesthetics.

Author : Ann R. Hawkins,Catherine S. Blackwell,E. Leigh Bonds
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317041740

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The Routledge Companion to Romantic Women Writers by Ann R. Hawkins,Catherine S. Blackwell,E. Leigh Bonds Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Romantic Women Writers overviews critical reception for Romantic women writers from their earliest periodical reviews through the most current scholarship and directs users to avenues of future research. It is divided into two parts.The first section offers topical discussions on the status of provincial poets, on women’s engagement in children’s literature, the relation of women writers to their religious backgrounds, the historical backgrounds to women’s orientalism, and their engagement in debates on slavery and abolition.The second part surveys the life and careers of individual women – some 47 in all with sections for biography, biographical resources, works, modern editions, archival holdings, critical reception, and avenues for further research. The final sections of each essay offer further guidance for researchers, including “Signatures” under which the author published, and a “List of Works” accompanied, whenever possible, with contemporary prices and publishing formats. To facilitate research, a robust “Works Cited” includes all texts mentioned or quoted in the essay.

Author : Sue Appleby
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781805148890

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Wives - Mothers - Daughters - Widows by Sue Appleby Pdf

“Cornwall has for centuries been the source of migrants to all parts of the world. This has generated a broad literature on Cornish emigration and the Cornish abroad, much of it concentrated on the better-known destinations of the USA, Australia, and South Africa; related to the international mining industry of the 19th century; and dominated by men and their stories. Appleby breaks the mould by examining the lives of female indentured servants, wives of mariners, miners, and missionaries, and ‘ladies of quality’, who, for many different reasons, spent time in the Caribbean. There has been a gathering tide of research and literature into the lives of Cornish women in recent years but, so far, less work has concentrated on the women of the Cornish diaspora, so this new book is a very welcome addition to that literature.” Dr Lesley Trotter, Honorary Research Fellow, Institute of Cornish Studies, University of Exeter. Wives - Mothers - Daughters - Widows is the first book to examine the lives of Cornish women who left their homes to spend time in the Caribbean colonies.

Author : Gina Luria Walker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351125857

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Mary Hays (1759-1843) by Gina Luria Walker Pdf

Mary Hays, reformist, novelist, and innovative thinker, has been waiting two hundred years to be judged in a fair, scholarly, and comprehensive way. During her lifetime and long after, her role in the ongoing reformist debates in England at the end of the eighteenth century, intensified by the French Revolution, served as a lightening rod for opponents who attacked her controversial stance on women's intellectual competence and human rights. The author's intellectual history of Hays finally makes the case for her importance as an innovator. She was a feminist thinker who advanced notions of tolerance that included women, an educator who broke new ground for female autodidacts, a philosophical commentator who translated Enlightenment ideas for a burgeoning female audience, a Dissenting historiographer who reinvented 'female biography,' and a writer of deliberately experimental fiction, including the roman à clef Memoirs of Emma Courtney. The author approaches Hays from several disciplinary perspectives-historical, biographical, literary, critical, theological, and political-to elucidate the multiple ways in which Hays contributed and responded to, and influenced and was influenced by, the most significant issues and figures of her time.

Author : Book Builders LLC.
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : 9781438108698

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Encyclopedia of British Writers, 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries by Book Builders LLC. Pdf

Presents a two-volume A to Z reference on English authors from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, providing information about major figures, key schools and genres, biographical information, author publications and some critical analyses.