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Author : Eliza Fenwick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : English letters
ISBN : UCAL:B3567510
Author : Lissa Paul
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781644530115
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 : Gina Luria Walker
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005-12-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 155111559X
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 : Broadview Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1998-10-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1551112167
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 : Sue Appleby
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781805148890
“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 : Mrs. Fenwick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 140999029X
Eliza Fenwick (1766-1840) was an English author. Fenwick's letters (1798-1828) to her friend Mary Hays were edited and published in 1927 by A. F. Wedd in a book titled The Fate of the Fenwicks. She was a good friend of Charles and Mary Lamb, as well as William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, Thomas Holcroft, and Crabb Robinson and other literary figures living in the late 1700s. Her 1795 novel Secresy; or, The Ruin on the Rock, continues to be studied in universities worldwide. She also wrote The Bad Family and Other Stories (1898) as well as several children's books.
Author : Gina Luria Walker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351125857
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 : Carl H. Pforzheimer Library
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Authors
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Charles Lamb, Jr.,Mary Anne Lamb
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781501727511
All of the available letters of Charles Lamb, a master of the English essay, and his sister Mary Anne published in this definitive, scrupulously edited work. The letters, many of them written to illustrious figures of the Romantic period, are generally agreed to rank among the finest in the English language. Transcribing where possible from the originals or facsimiles, Professor Marrs corrects textual errors found in previous editions, and he pays particular attention to establishing precise dates for the correspondence. He includes letters that were omitted from the last collection (published in 1935 and long out of print), and he has uncovered more than eighty letters never published before. The Letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb totals five or six volumes, and presents nearly 1200 letters written by Charles and Mary, singly or together. The correspondence is fully annotated, the volumes are illustrated, and the holographic idiosyncrasies of the originals are rendered typographically wherever possible. Rich in revelations about the extraordinary lives of the Lambs, these beautifully written letters are an inexhaustible store of information about the Romantic era and its major figures-Wordsworth, Keats, and Coleridge. The publication of unexpurgated and authoritative texts is an important literary event.
Author : Claudia Nelson,Julie-Marie Strange,Susan B Egenolf
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2064 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000560879
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 : Lissa Paul
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136841972
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 : Li-ching Chen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000817300
Family Annals, or the Sisters, Mary Hays's last novel, was originally published in 1817. This philosophically complex novel examines the themes of the importance of women's education, economic equality of the sexes, and general equality among all human beings. This edition of Family Annals, with a new introduction and editorial commentary by Li-ching Chen, will be of interest to scholars and students of the writing of the Romantic and Victorian eras. It will contribute to various debates about women's education in the nineteenth century, and will provide a new avenue of research in women's writing.
Author : Evelyn O'Callaghan,Tim Watson
Publisher : Caribbean Literature in Transi
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781108475884
This volume explores Caribbean literature from 1800-1920 across genres and in the multiple languages of the Caribbean.
Author : Hilary Havens
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317242734
Tracing the rise of conduct literature and the didactic novel over the course of the eighteenth century, this book explores how British women used the didactic novel genre to engage in political debate during and immediately after the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. Although didactic novels were frequently conventional in structure, they provided a venue for women to uphold, to undermine, to interrogate, but most importantly, to write about acceptable social codes and values. The essays discuss the multifaceted ways in which didacticism and women’s writing were connected and demonstrate the reforming potential of this feminine and ostensibly constricting genre. Focusing on works by novelists from Jane West to Susan Ferrier, the collection argues that didactic novels within these decades were particularly feminine; that they were among the few acceptable ways by which women could participate in public political debate; and that they often blurred political and ideological boundaries. The first part addresses both conservative and radical texts of the 1790s to show their shared focus on institutional reform and indebtedness to Mary Wollstonecraft, despite their large ideological range. In the second part, the ideas of Hannah More influence the ways authors after the French revolution often linked the didactic with domestic improvement and national unity. The essays demonstrate the means by which the didactic genre works as a corrective not just on a personal and individual level, but at the political level through its focus on issues such as inheritance, slavery, the roles of women and children, the limits of the novel, and English and Scottish nationalism. This book offers a comprehensive and wide-ranging picture of how women with various ideological and educational foundations were involved in British political discourse during a time of radical partisanship and social change.
Author : Andrew O'Malley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319947372
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.
