Author: Lissa Paul
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 1644530112
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
This captivating biography traces the life of Eliza Fenwick, an extraordinary woman who paved her own unique path throughout the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as she made her way from country to country as writer, teacher, and school owner. Lissa Paul brings to light Fenwick’s letters for the first time to reveal the relationships she developed with many key figures of her era, and to tell Fenwick’s story as depicted by the woman herself. Fenwick began as a writer in the radical London of the 1790s, a member of Mary Wollstonecraft’s circle, and when her marriage crumbled, she became a prolific author of children’s literature to support her family. Eventually Fenwick moved to Barbados, becoming the owner of a school while confronting the reality of slavery in the British colonies. She would go on to establish schools in numerous cities in the United States and Canada, all the while taking care of her daughter and grandchildren and maintaining her friendships through letters that, as presented here, tell the story of her life. Distributed for the University of Delaware Press
Eliza Fenwick
Author: Lissa Paul
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 1644530112
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
This captivating biography traces the life of Eliza Fenwick, an extraordinary woman who paved her own unique path throughout the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as she made her way from country to country as writer, teacher, and school owner. Lissa Paul brings to light Fenwick’s letters for the first time to reveal the relationships she developed with many key figures of her era, and to tell Fenwick’s story as depicted by the woman herself. Fenwick began as a writer in the radical London of the 1790s, a member of Mary Wollstonecraft’s circle, and when her marriage crumbled, she became a prolific author of children’s literature to support her family. Eventually Fenwick moved to Barbados, becoming the owner of a school while confronting the reality of slavery in the British colonies. She would go on to establish schools in numerous cities in the United States and Canada, all the while taking care of her daughter and grandchildren and maintaining her friendships through letters that, as presented here, tell the story of her life. Distributed for the University of Delaware Press
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 1644530112
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
This captivating biography traces the life of Eliza Fenwick, an extraordinary woman who paved her own unique path throughout the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as she made her way from country to country as writer, teacher, and school owner. Lissa Paul brings to light Fenwick’s letters for the first time to reveal the relationships she developed with many key figures of her era, and to tell Fenwick’s story as depicted by the woman herself. Fenwick began as a writer in the radical London of the 1790s, a member of Mary Wollstonecraft’s circle, and when her marriage crumbled, she became a prolific author of children’s literature to support her family. Eventually Fenwick moved to Barbados, becoming the owner of a school while confronting the reality of slavery in the British colonies. She would go on to establish schools in numerous cities in the United States and Canada, all the while taking care of her daughter and grandchildren and maintaining her friendships through letters that, as presented here, tell the story of her life. Distributed for the University of Delaware Press
Secresy
Author: Eliza Fenwick
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1776592115
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
Fans of Jane Austen's work will love this gripping novel from Eliza Fenwick, an early feminist thinker who was friends with Mary Shelley and several other important writers of the era. Secresy follows the unusual friendship between Caroline Ashburn and Sibella Valmont, both of whom have been negatively impacted by the constraints society places on women.
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1776592115
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
Fans of Jane Austen's work will love this gripping novel from Eliza Fenwick, an early feminist thinker who was friends with Mary Shelley and several other important writers of the era. Secresy follows the unusual friendship between Caroline Ashburn and Sibella Valmont, both of whom have been negatively impacted by the constraints society places on women.
Secresy - Second Edition
Author: Eliza Fenwick
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 9781551112169
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Secresy was Eliza Fenwick’s only work for adults—a fact that may help to explain why this extraordinary novel has been so thoroughly overlooked. On one level this is a book that presents fascinating challenges to traditional structures of class and gender. Whereas Mr. Valmont, the villain of the piece, rejects merely the surface forms of fashionable society, the story of his niece Sibella and her friend Caroline implicitly rejects the substance as well as the trappings of a system that rested on class privilege and on female dependence. Secresy is also, though, a remarkable novel of human relationships: of sexuality (Sibella’s pregnancy is the occasion for the secrecy that gives the book its title), and of romantic love, but also the female friendship between Sibella and Caroline that is very much at the heart of the book. The relationships—and the grand themes—are expressed through an epistolary technique through which Fenwick (in the editor’s words) shows "a breadth of sympathy which can find comedic pleasure even in what is disapproved.”
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 9781551112169
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Secresy was Eliza Fenwick’s only work for adults—a fact that may help to explain why this extraordinary novel has been so thoroughly overlooked. On one level this is a book that presents fascinating challenges to traditional structures of class and gender. Whereas Mr. Valmont, the villain of the piece, rejects merely the surface forms of fashionable society, the story of his niece Sibella and her friend Caroline implicitly rejects the substance as well as the trappings of a system that rested on class privilege and on female dependence. Secresy is also, though, a remarkable novel of human relationships: of sexuality (Sibella’s pregnancy is the occasion for the secrecy that gives the book its title), and of romantic love, but also the female friendship between Sibella and Caroline that is very much at the heart of the book. The relationships—and the grand themes—are expressed through an epistolary technique through which Fenwick (in the editor’s words) shows "a breadth of sympathy which can find comedic pleasure even in what is disapproved.”
Secresy
Author: Eliza Fenwick
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Feminism
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Feminism
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Secresy; or, Ruin on the Rock
Author: E. Fenwick
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Sibella Valmont is a young girl trapped in a huge castle by her mysteriously cruellest uncle, Mr. George Valmont, in this exhilarating mystery tale by Eliza Fenwick. Will she find a way to escape the gloomy fortress?
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Sibella Valmont is a young girl trapped in a huge castle by her mysteriously cruellest uncle, Mr. George Valmont, in this exhilarating mystery tale by Eliza Fenwick. Will she find a way to escape the gloomy fortress?
The Idea of Being Free
Author: Gina Luria Walker
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 9781551115597
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Mary Hays (1759-1843) is often best remembered for her early revolutionary novels The Memoirs of Emma Courtney and The Victim of Prejudice. In this collection, however, Gina Luria Walker reveals the extraordinary range of Hays’s oeuvre. The selections are mainly from Hays’s non-fiction writings, including letters, life-writing, political commentary, and essays. The extracts demonstrate her importance as an advanced and innovative thinker, philosophical commentator, and writer of deliberately experimental fiction. This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and full annotation. Texts by numerous other writers are interleaved chronologically with Hays’s writings to illustrate her idiosyncratic intellectual genealogy, how her understanding modulated over time, and the multiple ways in which she influenced and was influenced by the most significant issues and figures of her age.
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 9781551115597
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Mary Hays (1759-1843) is often best remembered for her early revolutionary novels The Memoirs of Emma Courtney and The Victim of Prejudice. In this collection, however, Gina Luria Walker reveals the extraordinary range of Hays’s oeuvre. The selections are mainly from Hays’s non-fiction writings, including letters, life-writing, political commentary, and essays. The extracts demonstrate her importance as an advanced and innovative thinker, philosophical commentator, and writer of deliberately experimental fiction. This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and full annotation. Texts by numerous other writers are interleaved chronologically with Hays’s writings to illustrate her idiosyncratic intellectual genealogy, how her understanding modulated over time, and the multiple ways in which she influenced and was influenced by the most significant issues and figures of her age.
The Children's Book Business
Author: Lissa Paul
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136841970
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
By focusing on the children's book business of the long eighteenth-century, €this book€argues that the thinking, knowing children of the Enlightenment are models for the technologically-connected, socially-conscious children of the twenty-first. The increasingly obsolete images of Romantic innocent and ignorant children are bracketed between the two periods.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136841970
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
By focusing on the children's book business of the long eighteenth-century, €this book€argues that the thinking, knowing children of the Enlightenment are models for the technologically-connected, socially-conscious children of the twenty-first. The increasingly obsolete images of Romantic innocent and ignorant children are bracketed between the two periods.
Keywords for Children’s Literature
Author: Philip Nel
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814758541
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
49 original essays on the essential terms and concepts in children's literature
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814758541
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
49 original essays on the essential terms and concepts in children's literature
The Fate of the Fenwicks
Author: Eliza Fenwick
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English letters
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English letters
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
British Family Life, 1780–1914, Volume 3
Author: Claudia Nelson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000560872
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 2064
Book Description
The five volumes of this collection focus on various aspects of family life. Drawing on rare printed sources and archival material, this collection will provide a balanced, contextualized picture of family life, during a period of intense social change. It will appeal to scholars of social history, gender studies and the long nineteenth century.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000560872
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 2064
Book Description
The five volumes of this collection focus on various aspects of family life. Drawing on rare printed sources and archival material, this collection will provide a balanced, contextualized picture of family life, during a period of intense social change. It will appeal to scholars of social history, gender studies and the long nineteenth century.