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Author Ty, Eleanor Rose, 1958-

Title Empowering the feminine : the narratives of Mary Robinson, Jane West, and Amelia Opie, 1796-1812 / Eleanor Ty.

Publication Info. Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, [1998]
©1998

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Description 1 online resource (x, 224 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents pt. 1. Mary Robinson (1758-1800) -- pt. 2. Jane West (1758-1852) -- pt. 3. Amelia Opie (1769-1853).
Summary "Mary Robinson, fantastic beauty, popular actress, and once lover of the Prince of Wales, received the epithet 'the English Sappho' for her lyric verse. Amelia Opie, a member of the fashionable literary society and later a Quaker, included among her friends Sydney Smith, Byron, and Scott, and reputedly refused Godwin's marriage proposal out of admiration for Mary Wollstonecraft. Jane West, who tended her household and dairy while writing prolifically to support her children, was in direct opposition to the radically feminist ideas preceding her. These authors, each from different ideological and social backgrounds, all grappled with a desire for empowerment. Writing in an atmosphere hardened towards reform in response to the French revolution's upheavals, these women focus their narratives on typically feminine attributes - docility, maternal feeling, heightened sensibility (that key word of the period). That focus invests these attributes with new meaning, making supposed female weaknesses potentially active forces for social change."--Jacket.
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Subject Opie, Amelia, 1769-1853 -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Opie, Amelia, 1769-1853.
Robinson, Mary, 1758-1800 -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Robinson, Mary, 1758-1800.
West, Jane, 1758-1852 -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
West, Jane, 1758-1852.
Opie, Amelia, 1769-1853.
Robinson, Mary, 1758-1800.
West, Jane, 1758-1852.
Opie, Amelia Alderson, 1769-1853.
Robinson, Mary (Schriftstellerin)
West, Jane (Schriftstellerin)
Opie, Amelia Alderson.
Robinson, Mary, 1758-1800 -- Critique, interprétation, etc.
West, Jane, 1758-1852 -- Critique, interprétation, etc.
Opie, Amelia Alderson, 1769-1853 -- Critique, interprétation, etc.
Robinson, Mary (Schriftstellerin)
West, Jane (Schriftstellerin)
Opie, Amelia Alderson.
English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
English fiction -- Women authors.
Feminist fiction, English -- History and criticism.
Feminist fiction, English.
English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
English fiction.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Women in literature.
Women in literature.
Feminism in literature.
Feminism in literature.
Chronological Term 1700-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Ty, Eleanor Rose, 1958- Empowering the feminine. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©1998 (DLC) 99189786
ISBN 9781442674394 (electronic book)
1442674393 (electronic book)
0802043623 (bound)
9780802043627