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1. Rebecca Romney

Jane Austen's Bookshelf

Who were the women writers that inspired Jane Austen? Why have they all but disappeared from our bookshelves? Rare books dealer Rebecca Romney sheds a light on Austen's inspirations and contemporaries in this page-turning literary adventure, publishing to coincide with the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth.

1. Maria Edgeworth

Helen

Emily Lawless

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Emily Lawless was an Irish novelist and poet from County Kildare. She was born at Lyons House below Lyons Hill, Ardclough, County Kildare. Her grandfather was Valentine Lawless, a member of the United Irishmen and son of a convert from Catholicism to the Church of Ireland. Her father was Edward Lawless, 3rd Baron Cloncurry, thus giving her the title of "the Honourable". In contrast her brother Edward Lawless was a landowner with strong Unionist opinions, a policy of not employing Roman Catholics in any position in his household, and chairman of the Property Defence Association set up in 1880 to oppose the Land League and "uphold the rights of property against organised combination to defraud". Horace Plunkett was a cousin. It is widely believed that she was a lesbian and that Lady Sarah Spencer, dedicatee of A Garden Diary was her lover

1. Veena , Kasbekar

Power Over Themselves

This book is a detailed exploration of the literary controversy surrounding female education in Britain from 1660 to 1820. The prevailing belief of the time was that the world was as it should be: a class-based patriarchy, relegating women and other lesser beings to certain societal and familial duties and denying them education beyond their prescribed role. The author, Veena P. Kasbekar, examines the attitude towards women as a key to the consideration of possible outcomes of educating women. She discusses theories about education and makes use of a variety of types of literature from the late 17th, the 18th, and the Regency decades, not just treatises on education. Female authors such as Mary Astell, the Bluestockings, Mary Wollstonecraft, Hannah More, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Maria Edgeworth, Jane Austen, and many others are discussed and quoted throughout the book. Since the literature of the time concentrated on upper-class women, this comprehensive research focuses on gentlewomen, but also includes women of the middle and lower classes. Four prevailing philosophies of thought, labeled Conservative, Progressive, Reactionary and Radical, are employed to divide the book into chapters analyzing 18th-century attitudes toward women and their education. These four traditions subtly informed and changed one another until the beginning of the 19th century. In the final chapter, the author illustrates the ways the four interacted to create cautiously merging attitudes to increased education and social change for women.Power Over Themselves is a labor of love, born of the desire to add to the compendium of material dedicated to the literary discussion of the status of women in history. It is a valuable resource for those looking to understand the time and place as well as the evolution of thoughts and ideas on respecting women's minds and capabilities through a more robust education.

1. Maria Edgeworth

Castle Rackrent and the Absentee

Maria Edgeworth

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Maria Edgeworth (1 January 1767 - 22 May 1849) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and children's writer. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature. Maria Edgeworth was born at Black Bourton, Oxfordshire, the second child of Richard Lovell Edgeworth and Anna Maria Edgeworth née Elers and thus an aunt of Francis Ysidro Edgeworth. On her father's second marriage in 1773, she went with him to Ireland, where she eventually was to settle on his estate, Edgeworthstown, in County Longford. There, she mixed with the Anglo-Irish gentry, particularly Kitty Pakenham (later the wife of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington), Lady Moira, and her aunt Margaret Ruston of Black Castle.