San Antonio College Library

An illuminating study of Julian, giving a picture of a remarkably fresh thinker whose questions and concerns are as topical today as when they were written in the 14th century.

"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,...

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.

"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.

Wisdom literature, in modern times, is very rare: who except George Eliot could write it?