Eliza Fenwick

Gebundenes Buch

The Fenwick Letters

Reconstructing a Transnational Feminist Life, Volume I: 1797-1821 Volume 1

Herausgeber: Paul, Lissa; Wilcox, Murray; Kitchin, Adrienne; Slagus, Jennifer

Beschreibung

This first volume of Eliza Fenwick's letters trace the correspondence of and her daughter Eliza Ann Rutherford between 1797 and 1821. Beginning with the death of Mary Wollstonecraft in London and ending with the remnants of the Fenwick family leaving Barbados for America, this scholarly edition reveals how Fenwick shaped an independent life in a transnational context during a period of seismic political change.

Autor

LISSA PAUL, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, is a Professor in the Department of English at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario. The Children's Book Business (2011) and a biography, Eliza Fenwick: Early Modern Feminist (University of Delaware Press, 2019), constitute her previous two books on Fenwick. Paul was also an Associate General Editor of The Norton Anthology of Children's Literature (2005) and a co-editor of Keywords for Children's Literature (2011, 2021). ELIZA FENWICK (1767-1840) was a writer 1790s London, a member of Mary Wollstonecraft's circle. When her marriage crumbled, she became a prolific author of children's literature to support her family, and after moving to Barbados, she established a school for girls, and went on to open and teach at similar schools as she moved to various cities across the Northeastern United States and Canada.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Delaware Press
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Februar 2026
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781644534083
• ISBN-10: 1644534088
• Artikelnr.: 73931835