1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454881103321

Autore

Denlinger Elizabeth Campbell

Titolo

Before Victoria [[electronic resource] ] : extraordinary women of the British Romantic era / / by Elizabeth Campbell Denlinger ; foreword by Lyndall Gordon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York Public Library, : Columbia University Press, 2005

ISBN

0-231-50993-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GordonLyndall

Disciplina

305.4/0941/09034

Soggetti

Women - Great Britain

Electronic books.

Great Britain History 1789-1820 Biography

Great Britain History 1800-1837 Biography

Great Britain Social conditions 18th century

Great Britain Social conditions 19th century

Great Britain Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"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.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-180) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Mary Robinson, eighteenth-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.

Sommario/riassunto

It might not have the been the revolution that Mary Wollstonecraft called for in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), but the Romantic era did witness a dramatic change in women's lives. Combining literary and cultural history, this richly illustrated volume brings back to life a remarkable, though frequently overlooked, group



of women who transformed British culture and inspired new ways of understanding feminine roles and female sexuality. What was this revolution like? Women were expected to be more moral, more constrained, and more private than in the eighteenth century, when women such as Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire crafted bold public personas. Genteel women no longer laughed aloud at bawdy jokes and noblewomen ran charity bazaars instead of private casinos. By 1800, motherhood had become a sacred calling and women who could afford to do so devoted themselves to the home. While this idealization of domesticity kept some women off the streets, it afforded others new opportunities. Often working from home, women wrote novels and poetry, sculpted busts, painted portraits, and conducted scientific research. They also seized the chance to do good, and crafted new public roles for themselves as philanthropists and reformers. Now-obscure female astronomers, photographers, sculptors, and mathematicians share these pages with celebrated writers such as Mary Shelley, her mother Mary Wollstonecraft, and Mary Robinson, who in addition to being a novelist and actress was also the mistress of the Prince of Wales. This book also makes full use of The New York Public Library's extensive collections, including graphic works and caricatures from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, manuscripts, hand-colored illustrations, broadsides, drawings, oil paintings, notebooks, albums and early photographs. These vivid, beautiful, and often humorous images depict these women, their works, and their social and domestic worlds.



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996387727003316

Autore

Coke Edward, Sir, <1552-1634.>

Titolo

Le quart part des reportes del Edward Coke chiualier, l'attorney generall le roy [[electronic resource] ] : de diuers resolutions & iudgements dones sur solemnes arguments, & auec grand deliberation & conference des tresreuerend  iudges & sages de la ley de cases difficult, en queux sont grand diuersities des opinions, & queux ne fueront vnques resolues, ou adiudges, & report par deuant : et les reasons & causes des dits resolutions & iudgements, publies in le primer an (le printemps de tout heureusite) de tresheureux regiment de treshault & tresillustre Iaques Roy Dengleterre, Fraunce, & Ireland, & de Escoce le 37 le fountaine de tout pietie & iustice & la vie de la ley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed for the Companie of Stationers, 1618

Descrizione fisica

[20], 128 [i.e. 256] p

Soggetti

Law reports, digests, etc - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Romance (Other)

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Cum Priuilegio."

Signatures: [pi]A⁴ [pi]B⁶ A-2I⁴.

Pages numbered consecutively on recto only.

Numerous errors in paging.

Reproduction of original in the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign Campus). Library.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0167