LEADER 04838nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910454881103321 005 20220115020926.0 010 $a0-231-50993-6 024 7 $a10.7312/denl13630 035 $a(CKB)1000000000772098 035 $a(EBL)908404 035 $a(OCoLC)827480887 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000598626 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11354172 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000598626 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10591564 035 $a(PQKB)11046861 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC908404 035 $a(DE-B1597)458788 035 $a(OCoLC)778435892 035 $a(OCoLC)979753673 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231509930 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL908404 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10526169 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL697538 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000772098 100 $a20040927d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBefore Victoria$b[electronic resource] $eextraordinary women of the British Romantic era /$fby Elizabeth Campbell Denlinger ; foreword by Lyndall Gordon 210 $aNew York $cNew York Public Library $cColumbia University Press$d2005 215 $a1 online resource (208 p.) 300 $a"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. 311 $a0-231-13630-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 179-180) and index. 327 $aMary 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. 330 $aIt 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. 606 $aWomen$zGreat Britain$vBiography 607 $aGreat Britain$xHistory$y1789-1820$vBiography 607 $aGreat Britain$xHistory$y1800-1837$vBiography 607 $aGreat Britain$xSocial conditions$y18th century 607 $aGreat Britain$xSocial conditions$y19th century 607 $aGreat Britain$vBiography 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aWomen 676 $a305.4/0941/09034 700 $aDenlinger$b Elizabeth Campbell$01040233 701 $aGordon$b Lyndall$0173710 712 02$aNew York Public Library. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454881103321 996 $aBefore Victoria$92462931 997 $aUNINA