Had I been born a hero
Helen Deutsch: Female poets of the eighteenth century, 21 September 2006
Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry: Inventing Agency, Inventing Genre
by Paula Backscheider.
Johns Hopkins, 514 pp., £43.50, January 2006,0 8018 8169 2 Show More
by Paula Backscheider.
Johns Hopkins, 514 pp., £43.50, January 2006,
“... that suits women best: less burdened by male tradition, easier to write while distracted (remember Jane Austen, composing in the sitting-room, hiding her manuscript behind a sheet of blotting-paper when friends came to call), more congenial to the social observation that comes of having been confined indoors for centuries. Yet before the great flowering of the ... ”