Alison Adburgham: 2 books
Women in Print
Writing Women and Women's Magazines from the Restoration to the Accession of Victoria
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
'This book should be regarded as rescue work. It salvages from pre-Victorian periodicals from the limbo of forgotten publications, and exhumes from long undisturbed sources a curious collection of women who, at a time when it was considered humiliating for a gentlewoman to earn money, contrived to...
Silver Fork Society
Fashionable Life and Literature from 1814 to 1840
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
During the years when George IV ruled the United Kingdom, first as Prince Regent then as King, his extravagant tastes served to characterize the times - the Regency period being identified strongly with new trends in British architecture, fashion and culture. The literary expression of this era was...