English Women of Letters: Biographical Sketches

ISBN-13: 9781108020541 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 362 str.

Julia Kavanagh

Opis

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 of the modern novel. Volume 2 contains brief biographical sketches and evaluations of the major works of five important woman writers: Elizabeth Inchbald (1753 1821) and A Simple Story; Maria Edgeworth (1767 1849) and Castle Rackrent, Belinda and Tales of Fasionable Life; Jane Austen (1775 1817) and her six major novels; Amelia Opie (1769 1853) and Father and Daughter and Adeline Mowbray; and Lady Morgan (c.1776 1859) and The Wild Irish Girl and O'Donnel. 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."