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Mary Wollstonecraft

An Annotated Bibliography

By: Janet Todd

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First published in 1976, this was the first comprehensive annotated bibliography of Mary Wollstonecraft’s works and most of the critical and biographical comments on her in English written between 1788 and 1975. It is designed both as a research tool for scholars and students and as a revelation of the quantity and variety of comment. The book is divided into three main chronological time periods of publication date and suggests the vagaries of Wollstonecraft’s posthumous reputation and indicates the peaks and troughs of interest. Known as an eighteenth-century British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights, Mary Wollstonecraft has received much critical attention with particular interest in her unorthodox lifestyle of the time and is now regarded as one of the founding feminist philosophers.

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Routledge

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1136234551

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9781136234552

Death and the Maidens

Fanny Wollstonecraft and the Shelley circle

By: Janet Todd

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Death and the Maidens

Fanny Wollstonecraft and the Shelley circle

By: Janet Todd

1816 was the fateful year when the Romantic poet Shelley and his lover Mary shared a hectic creative and sexual menage in Switzerland with Lord Byron. This intense period drew from the men some of the greatest poetry of the age; from Mary, it elicited the seminal figures of Frankenstein and his Creature. But for other women close to Shelley it was a time of tragedy. At the heart of the story are Fanny Wollstonecraft and Harriet Westbrook, women whose lives were literally overwhelmed by him – and who both committed suicide before the year was out. "Not only a splendid work of feminist history, this is an important addition to late 18th- and early 19-century literary criticism." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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A&C Black

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1448212529

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9781448212521

Other Sorrows, Other Joys

The Marriage of Catherine Sophia Boucher and William Blake

By: Janet Warner

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Other Sorrows, Other Joys

The Marriage of Catherine Sophia Boucher and William Blake

By: Janet Warner

This is the imagined life of a woman who really lived in the late Eighteenth Century - Catherine Sophia Boucher, called Kate - wife of the English poet and artist, William Blake. If you read between the lines of his poetry and letters, this is a story you might find. Other Sorrows, Other Joys weaves fact and fiction to tell the story of Kate's search for identity in the shadow of a man who can "see a World in a Grain of Sand and Heaven in a Wild Flower." Conventional, innocent Kate struggles to understand the world around her in the midst of her visionary husband's free-thinking crusades for freedom in religion, in politics, in love. Janet Warner's original novel dramatically recreates the story of a poet and his spiritual companion and the mystic visions that haunt them both throughout their lives. As Kate works as Blake's assistant, printing and coloring his designs, she witnesses the psychic powers that distract William from earning a living. She endures the loss of a long-awaited child, Blake's fascination for gifted women, and his frightening trial for treason. Through Kate's eyes, we meet a parade of people prominent in 18th Century artistic circles during the time of the French Revolution, such as the feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, Swiss painter Henry Fuseli, and the publisher Joseph Johnson - people whose intertwined lives were as unconventional as any Bohemians of a later time. Amidst these turbulent personal and political events, Warner reveals the compelling drama of Kate and William's marriage that survived it all.

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St. Martin's Press

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1466866047

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9781466866041

The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft Vol 1

By: Marilyn Butler,Janet Todd

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The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft Vol 1

By: Marilyn Butler,Janet Todd

A seven volume set of books containing all the known published writings and translations of Mary Wollstonecraft, who is generally recognised as the mother of the feminist movement. She was also an acute observer of the political upheavals of the French revolution and advocated educational reform.

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Routledge

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1000749606

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9781000749601

The Cambridge Introduction to Jane Austen

By: Janet Todd

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The Cambridge Introduction to Jane Austen

By: Janet Todd

The second edition of an innovative introduction explaining what students need to know about Austen's novels, life, context and reception.

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191

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Cambridge University Press

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1107100259

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9781107100251

Sequels

An Annotated Guide to Novels in Series

By: Janet G. Husband,Jonathan F. Husband

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An Annotated Guide to Novels in Series

By: Janet G. Husband,Jonathan F. Husband

A guide to series fiction lists popular series, identifies novels by character, and offers guidance on the order in which to read unnumbered series.

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American Library Association

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0838909671

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9780838909676

640 Acres and Dirt Poor

By: Janet Godwin Meyer

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640 Acres and Dirt Poor

By: Janet Godwin Meyer

I, Janet Godwin Meyer, grew up on a dirt road in Georgia in the 1950s. My grandparents lived just across the state line in Alabama. Until I was eight years old, I had no idea that our black neighbors (the Collins family) were constantly reminded that they were second-class citizens. My parents accepted the Collins family as true friends who could be relied on to help and love their neighbors. My daddy was strong-willed and independent in his constant support of all our black friends. Shut Godwin helped many whites and blacks, and his reputation as a force to be reckoned with actually made the Ku Klux Klan back away from any sort of witch hunts. And many times over the years, he redirected the evildoers that he called the KKK cowards dressed up in white ghost costumes. When I was ten years old, my mother drove her children across the country so that we could spend the summer in Magdalena, New Mexico. That was the closest we could get to my daddys sawmill. For fifty cents an acre paid to the federal government, my dad purchased the right to cut timber from the national forest.

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1546205543

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Gender, Art and Death

By: Janet Todd

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Gender, Art and Death

By: Janet Todd

In this book, Janet Todd, one of the leading authorities on seventeenth- and eighteenth century women writers, discusses gender issues from the Restoration to Romanticism investigating women authors and the fascination with culturally privileged art and with heroic death.

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311

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John Wiley & Sons

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0745668887

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9780745668888

Sensibility

An Introduction

By: Janet Todd

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Sensibility

An Introduction

By: Janet Todd

The cult of sensibility jangled the nerves of Europe in the mid-eighteenth century. It touched all literary genres and brought into prominence those qualities of tenderness, compassion, sympathy and irrational benevolence associated with women by the binary psychology of the time. It privileged spontaneous emotion and found this expressed in the bodily manifestations of tears, fainting fits, flushes and palpitations. Valuing the pure victim, it took as its archetypes the innocent dying Clarissa and the benevolent, suffering man of feeling. In Sensibility, originally published in 1986, Janet Todd charts the growth and decline of sentimental writing as a privileged mode in the eighteenth century. She shows how sentimental writing is riven with contradictions: while it applauds fellowship, it also expresses a yearning for isolation, and while it stresses the ties of friendship and family, it does so at the expense of sexual feeling, which grows menacing and destructive. By the 1770s, as the idea of sensibility was losing ground, ‘sentimentality’ came in as a pejorative term. Janet Todd ends her study of sensibility by detailing the various attacks on the cult, from radicals and conservatives, feminists and Christian moralists; from Coleridge who saw it as unmanning the nation to Jane Austen who considered it an elaborate sham

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Taylor & Francis

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1040025455

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9781040025451

John Payne Collier

Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century

By: Arthur Freeman,Janet Ing Freeman

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John Payne Collier

Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century

By: Arthur Freeman,Janet Ing Freeman

John Payne Collier (1789–1883), one of the most controversial figures in the history of literary scholarship, pursued a double career. A prolific and highly influential writer on the drama, poetry, and popular prose of Shakespeare's age, Collier was at the same time the promulgator of a great body of forgeries and false evidence, seriously affecting the text and biography of Shakespeare and many others. This monumental two-volume work for the first time addresses the whole of Collier's activity, systematically sorting out his genuine achievements from his impostures. Arthur and Janet Freeman reassess the scholar-forger's long life, milieu, and relations with a large circle of associates and rivals while presenting a chronological bibliography of his extensive publications, all fully annotated with regard to their creditability. The authors also survey the broader history of literary forgery in Great Britain and consider why so talented a man not only yielded to its temptations but also persisted in it throughout his life.

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1543

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Yale University Press

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0300096615

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9780300096613

Legendary Lives in La Princesse de Clèves

By: Janet Letts

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Legendary Lives in La Princesse de Clèves

By: Janet Letts

Weighing debates over reasons for the inclusion of apparently extraneous narratives in the 1678 novel by Comtesse Marie- Madelaine de Lafayette, the author presents her case that details on historical personages such as Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII, Henri II, and Catherine de Medici were intended to influence readers rather than convey "a sort of sentimental education for the heroine." She relies primarily on French language references, passages she excerpts and translates, the literary information base of early readers, and a 16th-century chronology. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Rookwood Press

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1886365083

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9781886365087

Changing Ideas about Women in the United States, 1776-1825

By: Janet Wilson James

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Changing Ideas about Women in the United States, 1776-1825

By: Janet Wilson James

Written in 1954 and published in 1981, this fascinating study remains authoritative as an account of a body of opinion about women’s nature and role that was in vogue in America during the first half-century after independence. Combining intellectual and social history, this work was one of numerous attempts being made at the time to add depth to American social history dealing with women and women’s experiences before feminism. The author explores British sources of American thought as well, presenting an early comparative history, and offers a focus on religion to show how processes of change to ideas about women occurred.

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1315300850

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9781315300856

Sequels

An Annotated Guide to Novels in Series

By: Janet Husband,Jonathan F. Husband

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Sequels

An Annotated Guide to Novels in Series

By: Janet Husband,Jonathan F. Husband

Sequels, the most popular and long-lasting guide to novels in series, returns with greatly expanded series listings. Mysteries continue to be a mainstay, with fantasy, science fiction, and romance listings, plus non-genre fiction selections from authors such as Edward Abbey and Lawrence Durrell. The authors have carefully sifted through a growing group of series to select those most likely to be available in a medium-sized public library, weeding out esoteric, obscure, and less popular series. This classic reference includes hundreds of annotated series, title and subject indexes, and suggestions for reading order. Library professionals will find Answers to the perennial question, "What should I read next?" Guidance on the chronology of a series Easy-to-use tools to identify novels by character, setting, and author The definitive resource for novels in series Including series started since 1989 and updated through 2007, Sequels will be the most complete resource for general readers and library patrons as well as readers' advisors; public, university, and high school reference librarians; acquisition and collection management librarians; and even bookstore staff and book reviewers. The expanded Sequels, 4th edition, will become the RA and reference librarian's resource of choice

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0838906966

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9780838906965

Contemporary Literary Criticism

By: Janet Witalec

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Contemporary Literary Criticism

By: Janet Witalec

Covers authors who are currently active or who died after December 31, 1959. Profiles novelists, poets, playwrights and other creative and nonfiction writers by providing criticism taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals.

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Contemporary Literary Criticis

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0787663425

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9780787663421

Planning Your Essay

By: Janet Godwin

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Planning Your Essay

By: Janet Godwin

With essays, the key to success is in the planning. The third edition of this bestselling guide takes students through the complete essay writing process, from planning the task and analysing the question to structuring, drafting and editing their work. It provides practical guidance on how to reference, approach different types of essay and make the most of tutors' feedback. The book also includes useful models for different types of essays from a range of disciplines and new content on synthesising information and planning a case study. This is an essential resource for students of all disciplines and levels who are assessed on the basis of their ability to write essays. New to this Edition: - New examples which help to illustrate principles of effective essay writing - New content on synthesising information and planning a case study - Additional guidance on how to make the most of feedback from lecturers

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350314897

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Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft

Death and the Maidens

Death and the Maidens

Other Sorrows, Other Joys

Other Sorrows, Other Joys

The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft Vol 1

The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft Vol 1

The Cambridge Introduction to Jane Austen

The Cambridge Introduction to Jane Austen

Sequels

Sequels

640 Acres and Dirt Poor

640 Acres and Dirt Poor

Gender, Art and Death

Gender, Art and Death

Sensibility

Sensibility

John Payne Collier

John Payne Collier

Legendary Lives in La Princesse de Clèves

Legendary Lives in La Princesse de Clèves

Changing Ideas about Women in the United States, 1776-1825

Changing Ideas about Women in the United States, 1776-1825

Sequels

Sequels

Contemporary Literary Criticism

Contemporary Literary Criticism

Planning Your Essay

Planning Your Essay

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