The celebrated Elizabeth Smith : crafting genius and transatlantic fame in the Romantic era /

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"This biography recounts the life of Elizabeth Smith (1776-1806), as well as discussing her posthumous literary fame in Britain and the United States"--

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: McMahon, Lucia (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2022.
Series:Jeffersonian America.
Subjects:
Smith, Elizabeth, > 1776-1806.
Smith, Elizabeth, > 1776-1806
1700-1899
Women translators > Great Britain > Biography.
Women scholars > Great Britain > Biography.
Women > Great Britain > Intellectual life.
Romanticism > Great Britain.
Savantes > Grande-Bretagne > Biographies.
Femmes > Grande-Bretagne > Vie intellectuelle.
Romantisme > Grande-Bretagne.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
Intellectual life
Romanticism
Women > Intellectual life
Women scholars
Women translators
Great Britain > Intellectual life > 18th century.
Great Britain > Intellectual life > 19th century.
Grande-Bretagne > Vie intellectuelle > 18e siècle.
Grande-Bretagne > Vie intellectuelle > 19e siècle.
Great Britain
Biographies
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: "Under the same roof"
  • "Rocky precipices" : between meadows and mountains
  • "Well furnished at present" : a community of learned ladies
  • "At the foot of the tower" : picturesque wanderings and the search for home
  • "Rejoice in their own energy" : enacting a learned life
  • "Thoughts of publishing a little biographical work" : transition to the afterlife
  • "A lasting and meritorious monument" : the life of Fragments
  • "Lives in this record" : an afterlife, in prose and verse
  • "To tread in thy footsteps" : literary tourism
  • Conclusion: "She was no blue-stocking."

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