A Favourite of the Laws
Ruth Bernard Yeazell, 13 June 1991
Married Women’s Separate Property in England, 1660-1833
by Susan Staves.
Harvard, 290 pp., £27.95, April 1990,0 674 55088 9 Show More
by Susan Staves.
Harvard, 290 pp., £27.95, April 1990,
The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship and the Life of the Mind in 18th-century England
by Sylvia HarcstarkMyers.
Oxford, 342 pp., £35, August 1990,0 19 811767 1 Show More
by Sylvia HarcstarkMyers.
Oxford, 342 pp., £35, August 1990,
Portrait of a Friendship: Drawn from New Letters of James Russell Lowell to Sybella Lady Lyttleton 1881-1891
by Alethea Hayter.
Michael Russell, 267 pp., £16.95, September 1990,0 85955 167 9 Show More
by Alethea Hayter.
Michael Russell, 267 pp., £16.95, September 1990,
Fierce Communion: Family and Community in Early America
by Helena Wall.
Harvard, 243 pp., £23.95, August 1990,0 674 29958 2 Show More
by Helena Wall.
Harvard, 243 pp., £23.95, August 1990,
“... the death of the man by whose name she has since been known to posterity. None of the women Syliva Myers includes in the first generation of bluestockings seems to have found marriage a satisfactory solution to the problem of life. The Bluestocking Circle emphasises instead its subjects’ mutually supportive relations with one another, their intellectual ... ”
