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19 de may. de 2024 · Mary Darby Robinson was not only praised in literary circles for her poetry but also for her works written in prose. The two best known examples are "A Letter to the Women of England" (1798) and "The Natural Daughter" (1799). Both her works are dealing with the role of women during the Romantic Era.
12 de may. de 2024 · A display has opened to celebrate the work of a group of women who risked their lives being flown into battle to treat soldiers during World War Two. Known as the Flying Nightingales, the women ...
16 de may. de 2024 · Haley Bracken. Emma, fourth novel by Jane Austen, published in three volumes in 1815. Set in Highbury, England, in the early 19th century, the novel centers on Emma Woodhouse, a precocious young woman whose misplaced confidence in her matchmaking abilities occasions several romantic misadventures.
Hace 4 días · Hi everyone! It’s Sophie Spruce, editor of Pride and Possibilities, here with a very special edition on Regency letter writing.For this issue, I’ll be interviewing Barbara Heller, curator of a special edition of Pride and Prejudice: The Complete Novel, with Nineteen Letters from the Characters' Correspondence, Written and Folded by Hand and Eleanor Rust, who has a PhD in Classics and a ...
Hace 18 horas · Amanda Vickery's new book is largely based on several rich collections of women's letters and diaries, most notably those of Elizabeth Parker Shackleton, whose family belonged to the lesser gentry and mercantile elite of Lancashire in the eighteenth century. These women's voices -- in turns passionate, pious, sentimental and sardonic, resentful ...
Hace 4 días · Professor Bernard Capp, review of Women Letter-Writers in Tudor England, (review no. 654) https://reviews.history.ac.uk/review/654. Date accessed: 16 May, 2024. It is a truth universally acknowledged and documented many years ago by David Cressy, that women in early modern England had far lower rates of literacy than men.
8 de may. de 2024 · 1122 to 1204. One of the wealthiest and most powerful women during the middle ages, Eleanor of Aquitaine rose to become Queen Consort of France and England. Queen Elizabeth I. 1533-1603. Queen Elizabeth, I was the last Tudor Monarch. Her 40-year reign is known for economic growth and stability.
