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How did the Victorian woman cope with the image of herself as a writer?What were the constraints on female friendships in a world centred on the pr...

If Aphra Benn is widely regarded as the first important woman writer in English, who was the second? In literary history, the eighteenth century be...

"I dined yesterday at Mrs Garrick’s with Mrs Carter, Miss Hannah More and Miss Fanny Burney. Three such women are not to found; I know not where I ...

How did the Victorian woman cope with the image of herself as a writer?What were the constraints on female friendships in a world centred on the pr...

Oliver Goldsmith arrived in England in 1756 a penniless Irishman. He toiled for years in the anonymity of Grub Street—already a synonym for impover...