413 research outputs found
In memoriam. Benjamin Franklin Perry, ex-governor of South Carolina ...
No full textMode of access: Internet.SML,Y CL69 225: Bound with her Tribute to Benjamin Franklin Perry ... [1888?] Boud with: Perry, Benjamin Franklin, 1805-1886. Address delivered before the literary societies ... 1887
100 Letters from Elizabeth Montagu to Elizabeth Carter, Elizabeth Montagu Correspondence Online (EMCO)
No full textEMCO's goal is to prepare a fully annotated electronic edition of Elizabeth Robinson Montagu’s correspondence. The author and bluestocking salonnière (1718-1800) was the leading woman of letters and artistic patron of her day. Montagu corresponded extensively with leaders of British Enlightenment coteries, such as Edmund Burke, Gilbert West, David Garrick and Horace Walpole, as well as the Bluestocking inner circle – Elizabeth Carter, Sarah Scott, Hannah More, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Frances Burney, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Elizabeth Vesey, and Frances Boscawen
To suffice to herself: female self-sufficiency in the work of women writers 1740-1814
No full textPhDThis thesis takes as its focus the concept of self- sufficiency in the works of
women writers 1740-1814, in order to re-evaluate the relationship between moral
and economic modes of eighteenth-century female (in)dependence. This focus
comprises two more refined aims: to formulate an appropriate methodology for
using the term self-sufficiency within the project by establishing its definitions and
applications, both contemporary and modern (addressing, in effect, whether it can
be said to establish its own discourse); and to discuss a range of work by female
writers whose thematic and strategic investigation of moral and economic issues
positions the nature of female self-sufficiency amongst their concerns. As part of this, the thesis seeks a broader definition of female economic behaviour than has
been the case in recent critical debates in order to reconsider women's presence as
economic beings in the fiction of the period.
Sarah Fielding's works are discussed in terms of her fascination with
exchange motifs and how this is manifested in her management of narrative forms
to structure moral and economic models of self-sufficiency. The work of Frances
Brooke is used to explore the implications of self-sufficiency in a range of sexual
and economic categories of femininity- the spinster, the widow, the coquette and the
female writer. An investigation of Frances Sheridan's novels is concerned with the
relationship between individual morality and the collective values, together with the
processes of acculturation, structured by female education and conduct procedures.
It evaluates how the self-sufficiency of the personal economy engages with wider
economies - moral, domestic and political. A fourth chapter on Frances Burney
examines her sustained preoccupation with the concept of female self-dependence,
and with the nature of female employment. These investigations suggest that only
by encompassing non-monetary economies can the nature and scope of eighteenth-century
women's economic experiences be determined
"different sentiments & different connections supports them" : sensibility, community, and diversity in British women's Romantic-period poetry
No full textWith diversity
as an overarching theme, women writers' responses to the
cultural
feminisation and developing social climate of
late eighteenth- and early
nineteenth-century Britain
are explored through analyses of their poems on
sensibility, community, and abolition.
To determine a
focus for
expressive criticism
and recover Romantic women writers
from the social and historical
contexts that have
previously succeeded in highlighting
male literary
achievements, women's poetry is
considered a distinct
contribution to Romanticism. This dissertation analyses poems
written
by Joanna Baillie, Anna Barbauld, Harriet
and Maria Falconar, Frances
Greensted, Frances Greville, Elizabeth Hands, Eliza Knipe, Isabella Lickbarrow,
Hannah More, Amelia Opie, Priscilla Pointon, Mary Robinson, Mary Scott, Helen
Maria Williams, Ann Yearsley, and Mary Julia Young.
Although literature brought together the public and private spheres, sensibility
mediated
between the two and served as a social currency
for
women.
The
various
applications of sensibility are apparent
in its dual-gendered nature,
its link
with
reason, and the significance of economic
language. A
new genre of the "Address to
Sensibility" was prominent
in the period and
followed
a
loose formula
which
defined
sensibility,
traced its
personal
impact,
and
determined
a
link between the Romantic
culture and
heightened
emotion.
Through
explorations of poems on
intellectual
coteries, patronage, creative
influence, Reviews, and
literary
critique,
it is
evident that women poets' affiliations
with the literary
community were marked
by
a
discomfort based on their literary
associations,
the anxiety about their public reception, and the social
differences in the
literary
community.
However, the development
of social,
intellectual, literary,
and
critical communities alleviated this discomfort
and contributed
to women's
participation
in literary
culture.
In
addition, women poets expressed sensibility and used images of community
in diverse ways in their works against slavery and the trade.
Abolitionist
poetry acts
as a case study of the particular motifs,
highlighted throughout, such as the
amalgamation of masculine and
feminine, the political and economic applications of
sensibility, the association of
feeling
with reason and community, and the assertion of
individuality
amidst commonality.
Women
poets' petitions
to alleviate the sufferings
of slaves paralleled arguments
for the improvement
of
British
society to benefit
women.
The poems discussed signify the complexity of the issues of sensibility,
community, and diversity
Yale School of Nursing Class of 1934
No full textMembers of class: Lillias Duncan Adams, Thelma Chase Bevin, Esther Dvorkin Bloom, Helen Fowler Boynton, Audria Gardner Cady, Elizabeth Perry Cornwell, Ethel Mary Elliot, Karin Ekblom Engstrom, Ruth Thomas Feldman, Katharine Chapman Francis, Anna Hotchkiss, Amalia Houzvicova, Josephine Riley Johnson, Elizabeth Ferguson King, Katherine Tierney Leahy, Martina Caroline Lynch, Frances M. McCormick, Lily Berman Mostyn, Miriam Abelson Ness, Lucille Olson Pond, Kineta Portlock, Frances Stratton Shaffer, Mary Huntington Shaw, Elisabeth Lawton Shippy, Helen Dann Stringer, Iva Florence Torrens, Doris Spencer Wallis, Elizabeth Perry Walter, Harriett L. Wilcoxson
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Women's life writing 1760-1830 : spiritual selves, sexual characters, and revolutionary subjects
No full textPhDThis thesis uses print and manuscript sources to analyse and interpret women's life
writing at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries. I
explore printed works by Catharine Phillips, Mary Dudley, Priscilla Hannah Gurney,
Ann Freeman, Elizabeth Steele, Mary Robinson, Helen Maria Williams, Mary
Wollstonecraft, Grace Dalrymple Elliott, and Charlotte West and discuss the
manuscripts of Mary Fletcher, Mary Tooth, Sarah Ryan, and Elizabeth Fox. Of these
sources, five have never been analysed in the critical literature and six have received
little attention. Considered as a group, this large corpus of texts offers new insights
into the personal and political implications of different models of female selfhood and
social being.
In chapter one, I compare the religious identities presented in the spiritual
autobiographies of Quakers and Methodists. For these women, religious identification
provides a powerful sense of social belonging and enables public participation.
However, it may also lead to a loss of self in the demand for religious conformity and
self-abnegation. In chapter two, I consider the life writing of late eighteenth-century
courtesans. These women adapt available models of femininity and female authorship
in order to establish themselves as socially connected subjects. However, their
narratives also reveal that dependence on the sexual and literary marketplace puts
female selfhood under pressure. In chapter three, I explore the eyewitness accounts of
British women in the French Revolution. I argue that, for these writers, connecting
personal identity to political history is an enabling source of self-definition but it also
exposes them to the risks of self-fragmentation.
In my focus on the social function of women's life writing, I present an alternative to
the traditional alignment of the eighteenth-century autobiographical subject with the
autonomous self of individualism. These narratives allow us to reconsider the
productive and problematic dialectic between personal expression and representative
selfhood, self-authorship and collective narratives, and individualism and social
being. They suggest that women's life writing has the potential to be both the self-expression
of a unique heroine and the self-inscription of a politicised subject
Refusing To Go Silently: Female Wit As Combating A Culture Of Silence In Frances Burney And Elizabeth Inchbald\u27s Texts
No full textIn the hands of two prominent authors, Elizabeth Inchbald and Frances Burney, a critical paradox concerning female silence arises: while both authors operate very successfully in the publishing world, both do so while subverting impositions of silence, exhibiting a clear breach of propriety. An examination of Inchbald\u27s novel A Simple Story and play Wives as they Were, Maids as they Are and Burney\u27s novel Cecilia and play The Witlings, elucidates how each author adapts literary genres to portray female wit, exposing eighteenth-century impositions of silence in the process. By engendering female characters with the ability to employ humor as young women, Burney and Inchbald develop characters with agency and articulation
In memoriam. Benjamin Franklin Perry, ex-governor of South Carolina ...
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The 'true use of reading' : Sarah Fielding and mid eighteenth-century literary strategies.
No full textPhDThe aim of this thesis is to explore, by examining her life and
works, how Sarah Fielding (1710-68) established her identity as an author.
The definition of her role involves her notions of the functions of
writing and reading.
Sarah Fielding attempts to invite readers to form a sense of ties
by tacit understanding of her messages. As she believes that a work
of literature is produced through collaboration between the writer and
the reader, it is an important task in her view to show her attentiveness
toward reading practice. In her consideration of reading, she has two
distinct, even opposite views of her audience: on the one hand a familiar
and limited circle of readers with shared moral and cultural values and
on the other potential readers among the unknown mass of people. The
dual targets direct her to devise various strategies. She tries to
appeal to those who can endorse and appreciate her moral values as well
as her learning. Her writings and letters testify that she is sensitive
to the demands of the literary market, trying to lead the taste of readers
by inventing new forms.
The thesis opens with an overview of Sarah Fielding's career,
followed by a consideration of her critical attention to the roles of
reading. I go on to examine the narrative structures and strategies
she deploys, with a particular emphasis on her use of the epistolary
method. The following chapter deals with her attention to the reading
of the moral message tangibly embodied in her educational writing. It
is followed by an analysis of the activity which earned her a reputation
as a learned woman. Various as the forms of her works are, they invariably
reflect her attempt to balance herself between the two demands of
inventiveness and familiarity
Everything is Relative: Frances Elizabeth Mease Barrow (Aunt Fanny) and Sarah Leaming Barrow Holly (Aunt Fanny\u27s Daughter)
No full textFor more than forty years Frances Elizabeth Mease Barrow\u27s name – or, rather, that of her pseudonym, Aunt Fanny – remained before the public. In the 1850s and 1860s, she published five quirkily-titled series combining humor, moral instruction, and social awareness. By the 1870s and 1880s, her name was associated with children\u27s charities and with club activities and literary salons. When she died in 1894, one obituary characterized her both as an author whose children\u27s books delighted the grandfathers and grandmothers of the present day and as a social star, known to everybody as \u27Aunt Fanny.\u27 Yet even though her name appeared often in newspapers and periodicals (and still surfaces in accounts of her nephew, Stanford White) and her own family figured in some of her stories, much of Frances Elizabeth Mease Barrow\u27s history remains shadowy or contradictory, a situation compounded by repeated errors in reference sources. The biographical fragments that remain, combined with Fanny\u27s writings, make it possible to piece together a more detailed and accurate picture than has been previously assembled. The portrait that emerges is that of a talented woman filled with a love of -- and ready sympathy for -- children (her own and others\u27), who managed to parlay her writing skills and build social networks to overcome personal losses and economic challenges and to help others in need
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