 | Engendering the Republic of Letters: Reconnecting Public and Private Spheres in Eighteenth-Century Europe Subjects: French letters -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Italian letters -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Upper class women -- France -- Correspondence; Upper class women -- Italy -- Venice -- Correspondence; Upper class women -- France -- Inte; In Engendering the Republic of Letters Susan Dalton analyses the lives of four of the most famous salon women in France and the Venetian republic in the late eighteenth-century - Julie de Lespinasse, Marie-Jeanne Roland, Giustina Renier Michiel, and Elisabetta Mosconi Contarini all lived through the events that transformed Western culture, including the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and the Napoleonic Wars. |
