| Description |
xii, 188 p. : ill. (some col.) |
| 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 (p. 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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Women -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Great Britain -- History -- 1789-1820 -- Biography.
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Great Britain -- History -- 1800-1837 -- Biography.
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Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 18th century.
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Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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Great Britain -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
New York Public Library.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
0231136307 (Columbia University Press : alk. paper) |
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0231136315 (Columbia University Press : pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780231136303 |
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9780231509930 (electronic bk.) |
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