Before Victoria [electronic resource] : extraordinary women of the British Romantic era / by Elizabeth Campbell Denlinger ; foreword by Lyndall Gordon.

By: Denlinger, Elizabeth CampbellContributor(s): New York Public Library | ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : New York Public Library : Columbia University Press, 2005Description: xii, 188 p. : ill. (some col.)ISBN: 9780231509930 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): 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 -- BiographyGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 305.4/0941/09034 LOC classification: CT3320 | .D46 2005Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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.
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"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.

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