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Essay: Feminist Historian Sheila Rowbotham on the Pioneering Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Radical Polemic, 'A Vindication of the Rights of Women'

Essay: Feminist Historian Sheila Rowbotham on the Pioneering Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Radical Polemic, 'A Vindication of the Rights of Women' | Fabulous Feminism | Scoop.it
An essay-appreciation of  the 18th-century pioneering feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, and an extract from Rowbotham's introduction to Wollstonecraft's groundbreaking work A Vindication of the Rights of Women,
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Reflections: On Jane Austen's novels - by Patricia Meyer Spacks, Prof. of English and a leading authority on 18th-century English literature

Reflections: On Jane Austen's novels - by Patricia Meyer Spacks, Prof. of English and a leading authority on 18th-century English literature | Fabulous Feminism | Scoop.it
The professor of English tells us about the joy of rereading Austen and the hidden layers of complexity that emerge from the writing when one does so. She chooses the best Jane Austen books. 
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Patricia Meyer Spacks is Edgar F Shannon Professor of English, Emerita, at the University of Virginia. She is a leading critic of 18th century English literature and has served as president of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Modern Language Association. Her annotated edition of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice was published in 2010 and On Rereading, a record of a year-long project of re-visiting different novels, was published in 2011.