Exploring the Lives of Women, 1558-1837 by Sara Read

Exploring the Lives of Women, 1558-1837 by Sara Read

A fascinating series of essays exploring women's lives, opening with the tragic reign of Lady Jane Grey and concluding with the accession of Queen Victoria.

Louise Duckling is an independent scholar working on eighteenth-century women writers and their posthumous reputations. She has previously co-edited Woman to Woman: Female Negotiations in the Long Eighteenth Century, with Carolyn D. Williams and Angela Escott (University of Delaware Press, 2010). Sara Read is a lecturer in English at Loughborough University. She specialises in literary representations of women and health in the seventeenth century. She has produced two previous volumes for Pen and Sword: Maids, Wives, Widows (2015) and Maladies and Medicine (with Jennifer Evans, 2017). Felicity Roberts is completing a PhD in English at King's College London and the British Museum. Her thesis examines the eighteenth-century naturalist Sir Hans Sloane's collection and the relationship between facts, species, description and classification in the making of natural history. She has a particular interest in the connections between natural history, literature, gender and material culture and has published on Mary Delany's botanical collages and manuscript novella. Carolyn D. Williams is an Honorary Fellow at the Early Modern Research Centre, University of Reading. Her publications include Pope, Homer and Manliness: Some Aspects of Eighteenth-Century Classical Learning (Routledge, reprinted 2014) and Boudica and Her Stories: Narrative Transformations of a Warrior Queen (University of Delaware Press, 2009).

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ISBN 13	9781526744975
ISBN 10	152674497X
Title	Exploring the Lives of Women, 1558-1837
Author	Sara Read
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Year published	2018-11-19
Number of pages	184
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