Before Victoria extraordinary women of the British Romantic era /

Denlinger, Elizabeth Campbell.

Before Victoria extraordinary women of the British Romantic era / [electronic resource] : by Elizabeth Campbell Denlinger ; foreword by Lyndall Gordon. - New York : New York Public Library : Columbia University Press, 2005. - xii, 188 p. : ill. (some col.)

"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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-180) and index.

Mary Robinson, eighteeth-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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780231509930 (electronic bk.)




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.


Electronic books.

CT3320 / .D46 2005

305.4/0941/09034