| Description |
xii, 188 pages : illustrations (some color). ; 27 cm |
| Note |
"Published on the occasion of the exhibition, Before Victoria: extraordinary women of the British Romantic era, presented at the New York Public Library, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, D. Samuel and Jeane H. Gottesman Exhibition Hall, April 8-July 30, 2005"--T.p. verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-180) and index. |
| Contents |
Mary Robinson, eighteeth-century romantic -- Exemplary women : Mary Wollstonecraft, Hannah More, and their worlds -- Not quite good enough : three imperfect lives -- The modern Venus, or improper ladies, and others -- Strong passions of the mind : women in literature and the visual arts -- Rational dames and ladies on horseback : scientists and travelers -- The youngest romantics -- The Pforzheimer Collection and its female inhabitants : an afterword. |
| Subject |
Women -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Women. |
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Great Britain. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Great Britain -- History -- 1789-1820 -- Biography.
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
1789-1820 |
| Subject |
Great Britain -- History -- 1800-1837 -- Biography.
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| Chronological Term |
1800-1837 |
| Subject |
Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 18th century.
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Social conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
| Subject |
Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Great Britain -- Biography.
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Cultuurgeschiedenis. |
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Vrouwen. |
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4.240. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Added Author |
New York Public Library.
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| ISBN |
0231136307 Columbia University Press alkaline paper |
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0231136315 Columbia University Press paperback alkaline paper |
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