Dr. Johnson's WomenA&C Black, 01.01.2001 - 256 Seiten "I dined yesterday at Mrs Garrick's with Mrs Carter, Miss Hannah More and Miss Fanny Burney. Three such women are not to found; I know not where I could find a fourth, except Mrs Lennox, who is superiour to them all." --Samuel Johnson Dr. Johnson enjoyed the company of clever women. Dr. Johnson's Women explores his relationship with six remarkable and successful female authors, all of whom he knew well: Elizabeth Carter, Hannah More, Charlotte Lennox, Hester Thrale, Fanny Burney and Elizabeth Montagu. It is also an account of the characters and achievements of these women. It is often assumed that women writers in the eighteenth century suffered the same restrictions and obstacles that confronted their Victorian successors. Norma Clarke shows that this was by no means the case. Highlighting the opportunities available to women with talent in the eighteenth century, Dr. Johnson's Women makes clear just how impressive and varied their achievements were. |
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... father's ghost , ' Look , my Lord , it comes . ' Such theatricality was to be expected from an ex - actor like Davies , who may also have been sending up his intense young guest . Boswell proceeded to blunder his way through the meeting ...
... father's ghost , ' Look , my Lord , it comes . ' Such theatricality was to be expected from an ex - actor like Davies , who may also have been sending up his intense young guest . Boswell proceeded to blunder his way through the meeting ...
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... father . London continued to have special importance as the centre of literary society . Carter agreed with Johnson that London was the place for ideas , and added that it was also ' the place for friendship ' - for friendship was the ...
... father . London continued to have special importance as the centre of literary society . Carter agreed with Johnson that London was the place for ideas , and added that it was also ' the place for friendship ' - for friendship was the ...
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... father and his friends . The precocious girl who rattled off her brother's Latin and Greek for him , who from her infancy had longed to be a scholar , and who had been given by her father the same classical education he had given his ...
... father and his friends . The precocious girl who rattled off her brother's Latin and Greek for him , who from her infancy had longed to be a scholar , and who had been given by her father the same classical education he had given his ...
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... father , the Rev. Nicholas Carter , was proud of her and an avid scholar himself . A farmer's son , he had come to classical learning relatively late in life it wasn't until he was nineteen that he began studying the all - important ...
... father , the Rev. Nicholas Carter , was proud of her and an avid scholar himself . A farmer's son , he had come to classical learning relatively late in life it wasn't until he was nineteen that he began studying the all - important ...
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... father's letters all emphasised that she was to judge and make appropriate decisions on matters large and small . For example , on the question of when and how she should return from a stay in London to Deal , he wrote : when you are ...
... father's letters all emphasised that she was to judge and make appropriate decisions on matters large and small . For example , on the question of when and how she should return from a stay in London to Deal , he wrote : when you are ...
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3 Charlotte Lennox | 67 |
4 Hester Thrale and Elizabeth Montagu | 127 |
5 Hannah More | 155 |
6 Fanny Burney | 183 |
7 Women and Writing | 217 |
Notes | 235 |
Bibliography | 247 |
Index | 253 |
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