Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750–1850

Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750–1850

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"This study explores the later lives and writings of more than two dozen British women authors active during the long eighteenth century." "Drawing on biographical materials, literary texts, and reception histories, Devoney Looser finds that, far from fading into moribund old age, fem...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Looser, Devoney, 1967- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press 2008.
Materias:
Barbauld, > Mrs > (Anna Letitia), > 1743-1825 > Criticism and interpretation.
Burney, Fanny, > 1752-1840 > Criticism and interpretation.
Edgeworth, Maria, > 1767-1849 > Criticism and interpretation.
Old age > Social aspects > Great Britain.
Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Older women > Great Britain.
English literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009423007406719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Women writers and old age, 1750-1850
  • Past the period of choosing to write a "love-tale"? : Frances Burney's and Maria Edgeworth's late fiction
  • Catharine Macaulay's waning laurels
  • What is old in Jane Austen?
  • Hester Lynch Piozzi, antiquity of Bath
  • "One generation passeth away, and another cometh" : Anna Letitia Barbauld's late literary work
  • Jane Porter and the old woman writer's quest for financial independence
  • Conclusion: "Old women now-a-days are not much thought of; out of sight out of mind with them, now-a-days."

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