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This volume discusses the lives and writings of five nonconformist women who comprised the heart of a vibrant literary circle in England between 1760 and 1840. Whelan shows these women's keen awareness and often radical viewpoints on contemporary issues connected to politics, religion, gender, and the Romantic sensibility. ** Review "Here is a case study in female literary tradition: the poems, letters, and other writings of a highly talented, multi-generational group of provincial, dissenting women friends. Such groups seldom leave enduring archives, and even feminist historians have often missed material lacking canonized names or links to dominant metropolitan, gentry, or Anglican culture. These women wrote, circulated their writing, and commented on each others' work without false modesty and with a confident sense of its value. They remain eminently readable. This study of their interconnections reshapes our understanding of ordinary pre-Victorian women's social and intellectual lives." Isobel Grundy, Professor Emeritus in the Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta, Canada "From the time British Protestant Dissenting congregations emerged in the seventee

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Author

Timothy D Whelan

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781137343628

Category

nonfiction