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<p>This reappraisal of the “scandalous memoirists,” Constantia Phillips and Laetitia Pilkington, overturns scholarship's traditional discrediting of them. Because their reputations for immorality led them to be despised and disbelieved, their revealing contributions of the period—of the law, of high and low society, of sexual mores, of women's attempts to bypass patriarchal prescription—have been obscured. Lynda M. Thompson credits the memoirists with sharply accurate criticism of their society's double standards and opportunistic stirring of public debate.</p>

Author

Thompson, Lynda M.

Publisher

Manchester, UK ; New York: Manchester University Press ; New York: Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780719055737

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Biography