A number of social and ideological features became prevalent in the European transition from eighteenth to nineteenth century – the establishment...
The nineteenth century was the century of reading, and from the outset women – as readers and writers – captured a large part of the rapidly...
Female writers of the Romantic movement did not have the academic training in literary tradition enjoyed by the majority of their male colleagues...
The ideal of womanhood, as described in the eighteenth-century moral tales and bourgeois stage comedies, was not hushed and inarticulate. But it...