English Women of Letters 2 Volume Set
Biographical Sketches

This excellent biographical companion to women novelists brought to attention in the Victorian mind the literary importance of women writers.

Julia Kavanagh (Author)

9781108020558, Cambridge University Press

Multiple-component retail product, published 16 September 2010

702 pages
32 x 25 x 7 cm, 1.2 kg

The Irish novelist Julia Kavanagh (1824–1877) published English Women of Letters in two volumes in 1862. The work, which formed a pair with French Women of Letters (1862), traces the contribution of English women writers, from the seventeenth century to the nineteenth, to the development and formation of the modern novel. These volumes contain biographical sketches of various female authors followed by evaluations of their most important works. Volume 1 begins with Aphra Behn (1640–1840) and Oroonoko and finishes with Ann Radcliff (1764–1823), and four of her gothic novels. Volume 2 analyses the work of another five writers, from Elizabeth Inchbald (1753–1821) and Jane Austen (1775–1817) to Lady Morgan (c.1776–1859). This important work brought to attention in the Victorian mind the importance of these writers. It has served for many generations of English literature students as a biographical companion to women writers.

Volume 1: 1. Aphra Behn
2. Oroonoko
3. Miss Fielding - David Simple
4. Madame D'Arblay
5. Evelina
6. Cecilia
7. Mrs. Charlotte Smith
8. Emmeline. Ethelinda. The Old Manor House
9. Mrs. Radcliffe
10. The Sicilian Romance. The Romance of the Forest
11. The Mysteries of Udolpho. The Italian. Volume 2: 1. Mrs. Inchbald
2. A Simple Story
3. Miss Edgeworth
4. Castle Rackrent. Belinda
5. Tales of Fashionable Life
6. Miss Austen
7. Miss Austen's six novels
8. Mrs. Opie
9. Father and Daughter. Adeline Mowbray
10. Lady Morgan
11. The Wild Irish Girl. O'Donnel.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [DSBF]