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Victim of Prejudice - Second Edition
Av Mary Hays, Eleanor Ty
Häftad, 1998
351 kr
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Mary Hays was an outspoken Radical intellectual in the turbulent decade of the 1790’s. She argued vehemently for the need to recognise the moral and rational qualities of women, the necessity of a better system of education for girls, and the importance of giving women without fortunes a career …
Bell in Campo and The Sociable Companions
Av Margaret Cavendish, Alexandra G. Bennett
Häftad, 2002
438 kr
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Written during the English Civil War and Interregnum when the public theatres were closed and Margaret Cavendish was living away from England in exile, Bell in Campo and The Sociable Companions are scathing satires that speak to the role of women’s agency amidst this cultural tumult. In Bell in …
Walsingham
or, the Pupil of Nature
Av Mary Robinson, Julie A. Shaffer
Häftad, 2003
482 kr
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Walsingham is both a lively story and a commentary by Mary Robinson on her society’s constraints upon women. The novel follows the lives of two main characters, Walsingham Ainsforth and his cousin, Sir Sidney Aubrey, a girl who is passed off as a son by her mother so that she will become the family …
Mill on the Floss
Av George Eliot, Oliver Lovesey
Häftad, 2007
376 kr
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This classic novel, first published in 1860, tells the story of Maggie Tulliver. Intelligent and headstrong but trapped by the conventions of family tradition and rural life, Maggie is one of the great heroines of Victorian literature. Along with Maggie’s story, the novel also tells a companion …
Conclusion of the Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph (1767)
Av Frances Sheridan, Heidi Hutner m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
492 kr
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In 1761, Frances Sheridan published her novel The Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph , which became a popular and widely praised example of the sentimental novel. The Conclusion , that novel’s sequel, is set eight years later, after Sidney Bidulph’s marriage and motherhood. Psychologically subtle and …
Female American (1767)
Av Unca Eliza Winkfield, Michelle Burnham m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
524 kr
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When it first appeared in 1767, this novel was called a “sort of second Robinson Crusoe ; full of wonders.” Indeed, The Female American is an adventure novel about an English protagonist shipwrecked on a deserted isle, where survival requires both individual ingenuity and careful negotiations with …
On Perpetual Peace
Häftad, 2015
240 kr
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Kant’s landmark essay “On Perpetual Peace” is as timely, relevant, and inspiring today as when it was first written over 200 years ago. In it we find a forward-looking vision of a world respectful of human rights, dominated by liberal democracies, and united in a cosmopolitan federation of diverse …
Salome
Av Oscar Wilde, Kimberly Stern
Häftad, 2015
381 kr
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Salome is Oscar Wilde’s most experimental—and controversial—play. In its own time, the play, written in French, was described by a reviewer as “an arrangement in blood and ferocity, morbid, bizarre, repulsive.” None, however, could deny the importance of Wilde’s creation. Contemporary audiences and …
Half-Caste
Av Dinah Mulock Craik, Melissa Edmundson
Häftad, 2016
392 kr
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Dinah Mulock Craik’s The Half-Caste concerns the coming-of-age of its title character, the mixed-race Zillah Le Poer, daughter of an English merchant and an Indian princess. Sent back to England as a young girl, Zillah has no knowledge that she is an heiress. She lives with her uncle Le Poer, his …
