Revolution and Romanticism

JONATHAN WORDSWORTH

The Bright Work Grows
Women Writers of the Romantic Age

The women writers discussed include poets (Baillie, Barbauld, Betham, Blamire, Caroline Bowles, Bryan, Hemans, Landon, Lickbarrow, Norton,Robinson, Seward, Williams, Yearsley), novelists, storytellers and essayists (Austen, Burney, Sara Coleridge, Hays, Inchbald, Caroline Lamb, Mary Lamb, Mitford, Opie, Owenson, Ann Radcliffe, Mary Shelley, Smith), polemicists and pamphleteers (Mary Anne Radcliffe, Southcott, Wollstonecraft), and writers on education (Edgeworth, Catharine Macaulay, Hannah More). With a substantial introduction and index this is a powerful, engaged and plain-speaking introduction to women's writing during a time when attitudes and conventions were undergoing fundamental change.

£35 $65

No polemical asides, no irrelevancies, no parades, no rococo. Each phrase tells, every paragraph is suffused with learning hard-won but lightly worn.
(Graeme Stones, Charles Lamb Bulletin).

Elegant, concise and marvellously illuminating.
(Miranda Seymour, Sunday Times).

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