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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"British women writers"”.
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Natural history and British women writers, 1730-1830
… for West Indian colonies’ potential to foster “British” national identity, with its mixed heritage and allegiances. This is the subject of my dissertation’s second chapter, and what it shows is that, at a time when women writers did not possess political power, some, such as Riddell, exerted …
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Coming to Terms: Nineteenth -Century British Women Writers and Their Publishers
… marketplace, focusing particularly on four women writers and their dealings with the London publishing firm of Richard Bentley and Son between the years 1860 and 1895. My primary sources include novels and biographies as well as contractual agreements, reader's reports, and personal and …
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A Domesticated Idea: British Women Writers and the Victorian Recipe, 1845-1910
… culinary traditions. <em>A Domesticated Idea: British Women Writers and the Victorian Recipe, 1845-1910</em> seeks to provide a framework by which we can explore the Victorian cookbook as a literary text appropriated by writers responding to and advocating for cultural, educational, and …
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Sowing Seeds Of Subversion: Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers' Subversive Use Of Fairy Tales And Folklore
… Seeds of Subversion: Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers' Subversive Use of Fairy Tales and Folklore" focuses on the fictional works of nineteenth-century British women authors, analyzing their use of fairy-tale and folklore motifs to criticize social mores, in particular those …
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Finch, Burney, Barbauld and the Brontes: feminine identity
… similarities in the themes and imagery of British women writers. These similarities have been argued as springing from either a shared cultural heritage or a gender-specific biological experience. Proponents of the 'nurture' camp suggest that common life experiences within western culture, …
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“O Bella Libertà”: the Experience of Travel and the Representation of Italy in the Works of Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and George Eliot
… and the representation of Italy in the works of British women writers of the nineteenth century. A close reading of literary texts by Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and George Eliot will help establish a connection between their journey to the Peninsula and their development as women …
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Material factors affecting the publication of black British fiction
… factors affecting the publication of black British fiction during the last three decades of the twentieth century. It argues that a study of the publishing history of black British fiction in this period must take into account wider political and cultural issues, as well as the internal …