bluestocking (21 Ergebnisse)

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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 668 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.67 inches. In Stock.

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Zustand: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Seiten: 382 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Keine Beschreibung verfügbar.

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Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Seiten: 756 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | When an impoverished widow is given a York townhouse for the Season, she seizes the chance for her adult step-daughters. 9 happy endings in 772 pages.

Zustand: Gut. Zustand: Gut | Seiten: 756 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | When an impoverished widow is given a York townhouse for the Season, she seizes the chance for her adult step-daughters. 9 happy endings in 772 pages.

Zustand: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Seiten: 756 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | When an impoverished widow is given a York townhouse for the Season, she seizes the chance for her adult step-daughters. 9 happy endings in 772 pages.

Three slips of paper cut from letters. All in good condition, lightly aged, and each with minor evidence of previous mounting. ONE: Hannah More. On both sides of 4 x 15.5 cm slip. On one side: '[] I am this moment come from Charlotte she is vastly well only her eyes have some remaining weknesses | Adieu my dear Madam believe me with all possible regard your ever obliged and affectionate | Servant | H More'. Other side: '[] the good People here enough to be all concerned any of their judgment or their Actions where Taste has any thing to do. - You know it always [?] my sentiments to you without reserve. | All here are much yours and your gallant Son's who I doubt not is as amiable in his exterior as he []'. TWO: Sarah More. On both sides of 2.5 x 10 cm slip. On one side: '[.]e, and a bad head ache, will not [] in yours most obliged, and [] | S More'. On other side: '[] Your Neighbours nor [] Visit, they drank Tea [.] seem polite well bred []'. THREE. Martha More. On one side of 3.5 x 9.5 cm slip (part of mount laid down over other side). Reads: '[] Correspondent, and [] | [] most obedient Servant | Martha More'.

The three items totalling 11pp., 12mo. On three bifoliums. In good condition, lightly aged. ONE: 23 February 1860. 3pp., 12mo. She begins: 'I cannot receive yr. repeated welcome remembrance of old Remp[ston]e. days, without a line of thanks for the pleasurable thoughts they awaken - a boon, to a Recluse, who lives much on the past & on the far-off present, which a friendly telescope may bring before her'. She congratulates him in graceful terms on his 'success'. She describes her 'comfortable happy winter': 'Our adult school prospering & occasionally enlivened by fresh May-Lantern Exhibitions & Microscope ones, & myself & others amused with Marine animals in their Tanks disclosing their Curious habits & forms, revealing their beauties, suggesting the Types of imitative art'. She continues in the same vein before exclaiming: 'I love Art, but love nature more - its interests ever encreasing as the opportunities of enjoying the other lessens, so I may well be grateful to it, as well as for the pleasure the other has afforded me through a long life'. TWO: 'Thursday' [no date]. 4pp., 12mo. She 'can never lose sight' of Scharf, 'with the minds Eye, tho' the outward one may more meet yr. happy looks, in yr. now prosperous state, in wch. none can more rejoice to think of than yr. old Friend'. She is pleased that he and 'Warburton' have become friends, 'for I dearly love & honor him & his position is anything but what he deserves'.There have been 'great Changes' at Rempstone. 'I seem to have seen enough in this word & to call up the past, & to live in the present this the numerous books that tell of it'. Her 'excellent Brother' is in good health, and she has 'a Lady friend or 2 in succession all kindly working for me in village advancement'. THREE: 'Sunday | 10 Nov. [1860]'. 4pp., 12mo. Announcing the death of her 'dear sister Sitwell', and describing in detail the circumstances ('[.] The day before she drove to Loughbro' Station to meet Miss Bathurst, her very old friend [.]'.) She gives news of her son and his wife, just returned from America, and condoles with Scharf on the loss of his father (George Johann Scharf, died 11 November 1860).

First octavo edition (second overall) of these letters between three principal figures of the Bluestocking circle, an informal women-led literary discussion group whose members also included Sarah Fielding, Fanny Burney, Edmund Burke, and Samuel Johnson. It was first published in a two-volume quarto edition the previous year; both editions are scarce in commerce. Elizabeth Carter (1717-1806) was the first person to translate the complete works of Epictetus into English. Published in 1758, the translation brought her fame and financial freedom from her father, allowing her to spend more time in London socializing among bluestocking circles. Carter's letters "are for modern readers among her most satisfying productions, at once informal and literary. Witty gossip jostles with sublime philosophy, Christian piety is tempered by ironic insights, and weighty learning is accompanied by a delightful flirtatiousness which comes as a surprise to those only familiar with her Epictetus. Feminist critics have appreciated her strong-mindedness and independent spirit, and, reassessing the cultural significance of the bluestockings, have stressed how, although not fully professional herself, she helped make writing a respectable occupation for women" (ODNB). Catherine Talbot (1721-1770) was a prolific writer who seldom published her own works; instead, she edited her associates' publications, including Samuel Richardson's Sir Charles Grandison (1753) and Carter's Epictetus. For the latter, Talbot lent support in navigating the conflicts between stoicism and Christianity as well as between scholarship and domestic duty. In one letter, Carter confided to Talbot, "whoever that somebody or other is who is to write the Life of Epictetus, seeing I have a dozen shirts to make, I do opine, dear Miss Talbot, it cannot be I" (vol. II, p. 202). The final correspondent collected in this work, Elizabeth Vesey (c.1715-1791), is more mysterious. She has few extant writings, and yet "The brief success of the bluestocking philosophy probably owed more to her than to any of the other women usually identified with this group" (ODNB). The work's editor, Montagu Pennington (1762-1849), was Carter's nephew, executor, and biographer (Memoirs, 1807). 4 vols, octavo (213 x 128 mm). Bound with half-titles and with vol. IV rear advertisement for further works by the authors. Contemporary sprinkled calf, smooth spines with red labels and black numbering roundels, compartments ruled in gilt, board edges tooled in blind, edges sprinkled blue, blue silk bookmarkers. Kinnaird's armorial bookplate on front pastedowns, each with manuscript shelf mark and offsetting facing free endpapers, belonging to Charles Kinnaird, eighth Lord Kinnaird (1780-1826), Scottish politician, and son of the prominent art collector George Kinnaird (1754-1805). Old leather dressing to spines just encroaching on covers, wear to a couple of corners, slight splits to inner hinges, foxing to endpapers, gentle creasing of leaves, occasional soiling and paper flaws without loss, contents generally clean. A very good set.