| Description |
1 online resource (319 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
Scottish cultural review of language and literature,
1571-0734 ;
v. 15
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Scottish cultural review of language and literature ; v. 15.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-313) and index. |
| Contents |
Excellent women, and not too blue : women writers in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Edinburgh -- Enlightening the female mind : education, sociability, and the literary woman in the work of Elizabeth Hamilton -- Incongruous things : primitivism and professionalism in the work of Anne Grant -- Scarcely known to fame : the literary identities of Christian Isobel Johnstone -- Modesty, money, and nostalgia : narratives of women's writing in Edinburgh's "age of greatness." |
| Summary |
This volume provides an overview of women writers in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Edinburgh literary world. Its main focus is on the careers of three women Elizabeth Hamilton, Anne Grant, and Christian Isobel Johnstone who were b. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Hamilton, Elizabeth, 1756?-1816 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Hamilton, Elizabeth, 1756?-1816. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Grant, Anne MacVicar, 1755-1838 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Grant, Anne MacVicar, 1755-1838. |
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Johnstone, C. I. (Christian Isobel), 1781-1857 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Hamilton, Elizabeth, 1756?-1816 -- Criticism and interpretation. |
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Grant, Anne MacVicar, 1755-1838 -- Criticism and interpretation. |
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Johnstone, C. I. (Christian Isobel), 1781-1857. |
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Johnstone, C. I., 1781-1857 (Johnstone, Christian Isobel) -- Criticism and interpretation. |
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Scottish fiction -- Women authors.
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Scottish fiction. |
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Women authors. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Perkins, Pamela Ann. Women writers and the Edinburgh enlightenment. Amsterdam [etc.] : Rodopi, 2010 9789042031371 |
| ISBN |
9789042031388 (electronic book) |
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9042031387 (electronic book) |
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9789042031371 (print) |
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9042031379 (print) |
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