Essays in Defence of the Female Sex: Custom, Education and Authority in Seventeenth-Century England

About Manuela D'AmoreMichele Lardy

Michèle Lardy did her PhD on The Education of Daughters of the Aristocracy in 17th-century England. She is a lecturer at Université Paris1-Panthéon-Sorbonne where she teaches the English language as well as English and American civilisation to students majoring in the humanities. Her research focuses on gender studies most particularly on 17th-century English proto-feminists and female-authored writings. Manuela DAmore Ph.d. is a tenured researcher of English Literature at the University of Catania (Italy). She has translated and edited Eliza Haywoods Anti-Pamela (1741) W.M. Rossettis The P.R.B. Journal (1848-1853) and John Oxenhams The Cedar Box (1918). The author of essays on Mary Astell Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Eliza Haywoods Masquerade Novels and D.G. Rossetti she has recently worked on 18th century English travellers to America.