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1 online resource (xi, 319 pages) : illustrations |
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OUP E-Books
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| Contents |
Catharine Macaulay, Thomas Hollis, and the London opposition -- Out Cornelia-izing Cornelia : portraits, profession, and the gendered character of learning -- Belle sauvage : Catharine Macaulay and the American war in Britain -- Mercy Otis Warren's revolutionary letters -- Free and easy : Boston's fashionable dilemma -- Mercy Otis Warren's independence |
| Summary |
Catharine Macaulay and Mercy Otis Warren were radical friends in a revolutionary era. They produced definitive histories of the English Civil War and the American Revolution, attacked the British government and the United States federal constitution, and instigated a debate on women's rights which inspired Mary Wollstonecraft and other feminists. Setting Warren and Macaulay's lives and writing in the context of the revolutionary Atlantic, this is the first book to consider one of. the eighteenth century's most important political friendships. - ;Catharine Macaulay and Mercy Otis Warren were ra |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Macaulay, Catharine, 1731-1791.
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Warren, Mercy Otis, 1728-1814.
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Macaulay, Catharine, 1731-1791 fast |
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Warren, Mercy Otis, 1728-1814 fast |
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Historiography -- English-speaking countries -- History -- 18th century
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Women -- English-speaking countries -- Intellectual life
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Historians -- United States -- Biography
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Historians -- Great Britain -- Biography
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HISTORY.
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Historians
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Historiography
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Women -- Intellectual life
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United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Historiography.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140161
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English-speaking countries
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Great Britain
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191535833 |
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0191535834 |
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9780199281107 |
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0199281106 |
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1280905999 |
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9781280905995 |
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9786610905997 |
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6610905991 |
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