 | Before Victoria: Extraordinary Women of the British Romantic Era Subjects: Women -- Great Britain -- Biography; Great Britain -- History -- 1789–1820 -- Biography; Great Britain -- History -- 1800–1837 -- Biography; Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 18th century; Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century; Great Brit; Combining literary and cultural history, this richly illustrated volume brings back to life a remarkable, though frequently overlooked, group of women who transformed British culture during the Romantic era and inspired new ways of understanding feminine roles and female sexuality. Often working from home, women wrote novels and poetry, sculpted busts, painted portraits, and conducted scientific research. This book makes full use of The New York Public Library's extensive collections to depict these women, their works, and their social and domestic worlds. Elizabeth Campbell Denlinger received her doctorate in English literature from New York University and has published articles on women in Romanticism and the history of sexuality. She is a research scholar at the publishing project Shelley and his Circle. Lyndall Gordon is the author of several books, including works on Charlotte Brontë, Virginia Woolf, and T.S. Eliot, among others; she is most recently the author of Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft . |
