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Before Victoria extraordinary women of the British Romantic era / by Denlinger, Elizabeth Campbell

Table of Contents: “…Mary Robinson, eighteeth-century romantic -- Exemplary women : Mary Wollstonecraft, Hannah More, and their worlds -- Not quite good enough : three imperfect lives -- The modern Venus, or improper ladies, and others -- Strong passions of the mind : women in literature and the visual arts -- Rational dames and ladies on horseback : scientists and travelers -- The youngest romantics -- The Pforzheimer Collection and its female inhabitants : an afterword.…”
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