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(0)Elaine Showalter
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 586 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In a narrative of immense scope and fascination--spanning nearly 400 years and brimming with Showalter's characteristic wit and incisive opinions--readers are introduced to more than 250 female writers, both famous and little known.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 303 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Julia Howe (1819 -1910) was a beautiful, studious New York heiress and aspiring poet when she married Bostonian Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, a hero of the Greek war of independence against the Turks and an internationally acclaimed pioneer in the education of the blind. Their marriage united two exceptional people. Together the Howes knew many of the key figures of their era, from Charles Dickens and Florence Nightingale in England, to Margaret Fuller,...