An important selection from the largely unknown writings of women philosophers of the early modern period. Each selection is prefaced by a headnote giving a biographical account of its author and setting the piece in historical context...
Eighteenth century
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Author:Nellis, Eric GuestSummary:Breaking from traditional historical interpretations of the period, Eric Nellis takes a long view of the origins and consequences of the Revolution and asserts that the Revolution was not, as others have argued, generated by a well-...
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Author:Williams, Helen MariaSummary:Helen Maria Williams was a poet, novelist, and radical thinker deeply immersed in the political struggles of the 1790s. Her Letters Written in France is the first and most important of eight volumes chronicling the French Revolution to...
- Author:Pariseau, MoniqueSummary:
Le 1er février 1767, Jeanne Barret, sous le nom de Jean Barré, embarqua sur la flûte L'Étoile avec près de 120 hommes pour accomplir le premier tour du monde sous pavillon français. Elle le fit déguisée en homme puisqu'une ordonnance...
- Author:Butler Hallett, MichelleSummary:
In Deluded Your Sailors, the culture industry is a weapon, a victim, and an opportunity, depending on the perspective of two main figures: the unsteady but perceptive Nichole Wright, whose discovery of crucial documents threatens a...
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Author:Kuhns, EleanorSummary:Will Rees is just starting to feel at home when a morning visitor brings news of an old friend's murder. Asked to look into the circumstances surrounding the death, Rees finds that everyone is hiding something. But are any of them...
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Author:Strowbridge, Nellie P.Summary:An exotic drama in which one man’s mysterious disappearance brings a dark end to three other people. What would it take to destroy an Irish girl who had survived famine and war in Ireland, and a hazardous journey across the Atlantic...
