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Vocational Philanthropy and British Women's Writing, 1790–1810

Wollstonecraft, More, Edgeworth, Wordsworth

By: Patricia Comitini

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Vocational Philanthropy and British Women's Writing, 1790–1810

Wollstonecraft, More, Edgeworth, Wordsworth

By: Patricia Comitini

Patricia Comitini's study compels serious rethinking of how literature by women in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries should be read. Beginning with a description of the ways in which evolving conceptions of philanthropy were foundational to constructions of class and gender roles, Comitini argues that these changes enabled a particular kind of feminine benevolence that was linked to women's work as writers. The term 'vocational philanthropy' is suggestive of the ways that women used their status as professional writers to instruct men and women in changing gender relations, and to educate the middling and laboring classes in their new roles during a socially and economically turbulent era. Examining works by Hannah More, Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria Edgeworth, and Dorothy Wordsworth, whose writing crosses generic, political, and social boundaries, Comitini shows how women from diverse backgrounds shared a commitment to philanthropy - fostering the love of mankind - and an interest in the social nature of literacy. Their writing fosters sentiments that they hoped would be shared between the sexes and among the classes in English society, forging new reading audiences among women and the lower classes. These writers and their writing exemplify the paradigm of vocational philanthropy, which gives people not money, but texts to read, in order to imagine societal improvement. The effect was to permit the emergence of middle-class values linking private notions of morality, family, and love to the public needs for good citizens, industrious laborers, and class consolidation.

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Vocational Philanthropy and British Women's Writing, 1790–1810

Wollstonecraft, More, Edgeworth, Wordsworth

By: Patricia Comitini

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My Two Mothers: A Memoir with Recipes

By: Patricia Florio

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My Two Mothers: A Memoir with Recipes

By: Patricia Florio

My five-year granddaughter Amelia insists my entire family join in a huddle in the living room before leaving our home after a birthday party, a holiday meal, or just in-the-middle-of-a-week-night at Mimi and PopPop's house. She encourages us to come out of this huddle shouting, "Yay, family!" Even at her young age, Amelia has gotten the notion that being part of a family is something special to celebrate. If I've set this tradition in motion and influenced her, or my other grandchildren's desire to part of my family, I can rest knowing that I've done my job. My own love of family, cultivated long before I was born, by my grandmother, my mother, her sisters and brothers in the house at 435 Union Street in the Carroll Gardens section of Brooklyn, this is where I grew to appreciate having a loving family. It was that house, that family, those home-cooked meals that motivated me to present to you this book, My Two Mothers: A Memoir With Recipes. " The small 'village' she was born into and grew up is mostly gone. Patricia has shared her experience with us and we are richer for it." Rashidah Ismaili AbuBakr, Author of Cantata for Jimmy

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Serendipity Press

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061589402X

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Vocational Philanthropy and British Women's Writing, 1790–1810

Vocational Philanthropy and British Women's Writing, 1790–1810

Vocational Philanthropy and British Women's Writing, 1790–1810

Vocational Philanthropy and British Women's Writing, 1790–1810

My Two Mothers: A Memoir with Recipes

My Two Mothers: A Memoir with Recipes

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