13671 Race and Society Red leather label with gilt

Red leather label with gilt title

plus one chapter on New York as the social center

being a wrap-around painting of Victoria with her family and household around her

Packed with illustrations of an area connected closely to Austen

13671 Race and Society Red leather label with giltFive writers Lucy Hutchinson, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Charlotte Lennox, Catherine Macaulay, Hester Lynch Piozzi, and Jane Austen, are examined as writers of "real solemn history" during a time when writing history was not acceptable for women. The approach is enlightening and entertaining. The section on Austen is fascinating. JHUP, 2000, reprinted now at $30 list. Paper, 272 pgs. NEW. $20. 00