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Book SynopsisCombines a survey of women's writing in the period of 1790-1827, with analyses of the critically neglected work of three important writers: Helen Maria Williams, Mary Hays and Elizabeth Hamilton. It also looks at the links between women writers, the French Revolution and romanticism.
Trade Review'His study is informative and admirably appreciative of the work of three fascinating women.' Times Higher Education Supplement
'a lucid and densely documented overview of the gendered politics of writing in the period ... in this detailed , lucid, and suggestive account of gender and cultural change, Kelly has once again provided a most valuable map for anyone engaged in trying to define the continuities - and discontinuities - in feminist histories in this period.' Vivien Jones, University of Leeds, Eighteenth-Century Fiction 6:4
Kelly is deeply read in this literature * English Studies Vol 75 no 6 *
Gary Kelly's expertise on all aspects of the prose writing of the Romantic period is indubitable. Women, Writing, and Revolution must be an essential text for both students and teachers of women's writing of this important period of English literature and cultural politics. * Harriet Devine Jump, Edge Hill College, Review of English Studies, Vol. 47, No. 186, May '96 *
Table of ContentsPart 1 Women and writing in the Revolutionary decade: feminizing revolution - Helen Maria Williams; Mary Hays and revolutionary sensibility; Elizabeth Hamilton and counter-revolutionary feminism. Part 2 Women, writing and the Revolutionary aftermath: Helen Maria Williams in post-Revolutionary France; Mary Hays - women, history and the state; Elizabeth Hamilton - domestic woman and national reconstruction.
