English Women of Letters: Biographical Sketches

ISBN-13: 9781108020534 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 342 str.

Julia Kavanagh

Opis

The Irish novelist Julia Kavanagh (1824 1877) published English Women of Letters in two volumes in 1862. The work, which formed a pair with French Women of Letters (1862), traces the contribution of English women writers, from the seventeenth century to the nineteenth, to the development and formation of the modern novel. Volume 1 contains biographical sketches of five female authors followed by evaluations of their most important works: Aphra Behn (1640 1689) and Oroonoko; Sarah Fielding (1710 1768) and David Simple; Madame D'Arblay (1752 1840), also known as Fanny Burney, and Evelina and Cecilia; Charlotte Smith (1749 1806) and Emmeline, Ethelinda and The Old Manor House; and Ann Radcliff (1764 1823), and four of her gothic novels. This important work brought to attention in the Victorian mind the importance of these writers. It has served for many generations of English literature students as a biographical companion to women writers."