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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      16 May 2011
      16 September 2010
      ISBN:
      9780511751288
      9781108020534
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511751288
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      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.44kg, 342 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, English Literature: General Interest, English Literature 1830-1900
      Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies
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    Subjects:
    Literature, English Literature: General Interest, English Literature 1830-1900
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies
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    The Irish novelist Julia Kavanagh (1824–1877) published English Women of Letters in two volumes in 1862. The work, which formed a pair with French Women of Letters (1862), traces the contribution of English women writers, from the seventeenth century to the nineteenth, to the development and formation of the modern novel. Volume 1 contains biographical sketches of five female authors followed by evaluations of their most important works: Aphra Behn (1640–1689) and Oroonoko; Sarah Fielding (1710–1768) and David Simple; Madame D'Arblay (1752–1840), also known as Fanny Burney, and Evelina and Cecilia; Charlotte Smith (1749–1806) and Emmeline, Ethelinda and The Old Manor House; and Ann Radcliff (1764–1823), and four of her gothic novels. This important work brought to attention in the Victorian mind the importance of these writers. It has served for many generations of English literature students as a biographical companion to women writers.

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