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Dr Johnson's Women Norma Clarke

Dr Johnson's Women By Norma Clarke

Dr Johnson's Women by Norma Clarke


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Dr Johnson's friendships with the leading women writers of the day was an important feature of his life and theirs. Highlighting the opportunities available to women of talent in the eighteenth century, Dr Johnson's Women makes clear just how impressive and varied their achievements were.

Dr Johnson's Women Summary

Dr Johnson's Women by Norma Clarke

Dr Johnson's friendships with the leading women writers of the day was an important feature of his life and theirs. He was willing to treat women as intellectual equals and to promote their careers: something ignored by his main biographer, James Boswell. Dr Johnson's Women investigates the lives and writings of six leading female authors Johnson knew well: Elizabeth Carter, Charlotte Lennox, Elizabeth Montagu, Hester Thrale, Hannah More and Fanny Burney. It explores their relationships with Johnson, with each other and with the world of letters. It shows what it was like to be a woman writer in the 'Age of Johnson'. It is often assumed that women writers in the eighteenth century suffered the same restrictions and obstacles that confronted their Victorian successors. Norma Clarke shows that this was by no means the case. Highlighting the opportunities available to women of talent in the eighteenth century, Dr Johnson's Women makes clear just how impressive and varied their achievements were.

Dr Johnson's Women Reviews

This entertaining, scholarly book suggests how they [women] disappeared and why figures such as Lennox deserve to be remembered. * Tom Boncza-Tomaszewski, Independent *

About Norma Clarke

Norma Clarke is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Kingston University. She is the author of Ambitious Heights: Writing, Friendship, Love. The Jewsbury Sisters, Felicia Hemans and Jane Carlyle, The Rise and Fall of the Woman of Letters (published by Pimlico), many essays on eighteenth and nineteenth-century writers and five novels for children.

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GOR001286637
9780712645980
0712645985
Dr Johnson's Women by Norma Clarke
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Vintage Publishing
20050303
272
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