03526nam 2200745 450 991078069270332120230912163143.01-282-02866-997866120286631-4426-7439-310.3138/9781442674394(CKB)2420000000004026(OCoLC)244768756(CaPaEBR)ebrary10219202(SSID)ssj0000295103(PQKBManifestationID)11251217(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000295103(PQKBWorkID)10315428(PQKB)10980276(CaBNvSL)thg00600560 (DE-B1597)464440(OCoLC)944178224(DE-B1597)9781442674394(Au-PeEL)EBL4671469(CaPaEBR)ebr11257179(CaONFJC)MIL202866(OCoLC)958562577(OCoLC)1082730010(MdBmJHUP)musev2_104710(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/2zr0db(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/6/417854(MiAaPQ)EBC4671469(MiAaPQ)EBC3255294(EXLCZ)99242000000000402620160922h19981998 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrEmpowering the feminine the narratives of Mary Robinson, Jane West, and Amelia Opie, 1796-1812 /Eleanor TyToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,1998.©19981 online resource (237 p.) Includes index.0-8020-4362-3 Includes bibliographical references and index. pt. 1. Mary Robinson (1758-1800) -- pt. 2. Jane West (1758-1852) -- pt. 3. Amelia Opie (1769-1853)."Mary Robinson, fantastic beauty, popular actress, and once lover of the Prince of Wales, received the epithet 'the English Sappho' for her lyric verse. Amelia Opie, a member of the fashionable literary society and later a Quaker, included among her friends Sydney Smith, Byron, and Scott, and reputedly refused Godwin's marriage proposal out of admiration for Mary Wollstonecraft. Jane West, who tended her household and dairy while writing prolifically to support her children, was in direct opposition to the radically feminist ideas preceding her. These authors, each from different ideological and social backgrounds, all grappled with a desire for empowerment. Writing in an atmosphere hardened towards reform in response to the French revolution's upheavals, these women focus their narratives on typically feminine attributes - docility, maternal feeling, heightened sensibility (that key word of the period). That focus invests these attributes with new meaning, making supposed female weaknesses potentially active forces for social change."--Jacket.English fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticismWomen and literatureGreat BritainHistory18th centuryEnglischswdCriticism, interpretation, etc.Electronic books. English fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticism.Women and literatureHistory823.5099287Ty Eleanor Rose1958-222912MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910780692703321Empowering the feminine3731273UNINA