Rewriting lives: reading, sociability, and authority in women’s literary biography, 1780-1820
(2025)
Thesis
Stanbridge, E. (2025). Rewriting lives: reading, sociability, and authority in women’s literary biography, 1780-1820. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/1109729
This dissertation assesses the contributions of three biographers – Hester Lynch Piozzi (1741-1821), Anna Seward (1742-1809), and Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849) – to the development of British life-writing in the period 1780-1820. This examination of th... Read More about Rewriting lives: reading, sociability, and authority in women’s literary biography, 1780-1820.