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"This literary life shows how pioneer feminist Mary Wollstonecraft was nurtured by the intellectual climate of Rational Dissent. Nonconformist circles afforded this autodidact-turned-teacher the opportunity of living solely by the pen and becoming a woman of letters during the revolutionary decade. Though famous for two of the most original political polemics of the Revolutionary Debate, Wollstonecraft was also notable as a novelist, educationalist,...
7) Jane Austen
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In this book the author had two aims in view. The first was to provide an introduction to Jane Austen which would be of use to those readers who were new to her work as well as to those who already know her novels but might not have found in them anything of particular importance or interest.
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At the time of her death in 1992, Angela Carter had become an important and widely read British writer. However, as the author of a collection of essays entitled Nothing Sacred, she would probably have found her own canonization amusing. In the first book-length study devoted to her novels, Linden Peach demonstrates how Carter's fiction has retained the power to surprise and agitate. This lively book provides both close readings of individual texts...
13) Virginia Woolf
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Unifies introduction to the critic, feminist, theoretician, personality, modernist and especially the novelist, addressing her importance and complexity, vision of despair juxtaposed with affirmation and probing her themes and stylistic components.
14) Emily Bronte
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"In examining the ways in which Emily Brontë achieved her radical effects, Stevie Davies here reveals that at the heart of Brontë's endeavor there resides an intransigent language of childhood, which enabled her not only to subvert gender distinctions but to create unique fictional worlds in a language of extraordinary power."--Publisher's description.
15) George Eliot
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Wisdom literature, in modern times, is very rare: who except George Eliot could write it?
20) May Sinclair
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"The acclaimed Twayne's Authors Series of literary criticism offers in-depth introductions to the lives and works of writers, the history and influence of literary movements and to the development of literary genres. This online series features the content of nearly 600 books that comprise three print series --United States Authors, English Authors and World Authors -- each of which were carefully coordinated with input from librarians and educators...
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