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Vocational philanthropy and British women's writing, 1790-1810 : Wollstonecraft, More, Edgeworth, Wordsworth / Patricia Comitini.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Comitini, Patricia.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851. Vindication of the rights of women.
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft.
More, Hannah, 1745-1833--Criticism and interpretation.
More, Hannah.
Wordsworth, Dorothy, 1771-1855--Diaries.
Wordsworth, Dorothy.
Edgeworth, Maria, 1768-1849. Belinda.
Edgeworth, Maria.
Wordsworth, Dorothy, 1771-1855.
More, Hannah, 1745-1833.
English prose literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
English prose literature.
English prose literature--Women authors.
English prose literature--18th century--History and criticism.
English prose literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Literature and society--Great Britain.
Literature and society.
Women and literature--Great Britain.
Women and literature.
Humanitarianism in literature.
Charities--Great Britain.
Charities.
Diaries.
Criticism and interpretation.
Great Britain.
Physical Description:
viii, 168 pages ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2005]
Contents:
History, philanthropy and benevolent femininity
The benevolent woman : rereading Mary Wollstonecraft's A vindication of the rights of woman
Beyond the polite : philanthropy and the politics of 'popular' tales
Reforming fiction and the middling classes : Maria Edgeworth's Belinda
More than 'half a poet' : Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere journal.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [159]-164) and index.
ISBN:
0754650421
OCLC:
56050999

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