Before Victoria extraordinary women of the British Romantic era / by Elizabeth Campbell Denlinger ; foreword by Lyndall Gordon.

Author/creator Denlinger, Elizabeth Campbell
Other author New York Public Library.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York : New York Public Library : Columbia University Press,
Descriptionxii, 188 p. : ill (some col.). ; 27 cm.
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Subjects
Women--Great Britain. --Biography.
Great Britain--History. --1789-1820. --Biography.
Great Britain--History. --1800-1837. --Biography.
Great Britain--Social conditions. --18th century.
Great Britain--Social conditions. --19th century.
Great Britain--Biography.

Contents Mary Robinson, eighteenth-century romantic -- Exemplary women : Mary Wollstonecraft, Hannah More, and their worlds -- Not quite good enough : three imperfect lives -- The modern Venus, or improper ladies, and others -- Strong passions of the mind : women in literature and the visual arts -- Rational dames and ladies on horseback : scientists and travelers -- The youngest romantics -- The Pforzheimer Collection and its female inhabitants : an afterword.
General note"Published on the occasion of the exhibition, Before Victoria: extraordinary women of the British Romantic era, presented at the New York Public Library, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, D. Samuel and Jeane H. Gottesman Exhibition Hall, April 8-July 30, 2005"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 179-180) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2004059267
ISBN0231136307 (Columbia University Press : alk. paper)
ISBN0231136315 (Columbia University Press : pbk. : alk. paper)

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