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Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.: McGill Queens Univ Pr, 1995. Crisp and new set of the first collected edition of the plays of Frances Burney (1753-1840). Vol. 1 contains her 4 comedies. Vol 2 her tragedies. In attractive blue cloth hardcovers with redleather spine label and gilt lettering. Extra-heavy , please inquire re shipping.. First American Edition. Fine as… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Feminist Press at The City University of New York, 1991. In illustrated softcover. volume II only. in fine condition. Writers included are nuns, court historians, polemicists, poets, and memoir and fiction authors. Many archaic and destructive traditions are explained, such as the horrifying ritual of suttee (sati). Praiseworthy headnotes and detailed biographical and… Read more about this item

Cologn: Emma Verlag, 1988. Fine condition small quarto-sized catalog illustrated with black and white photoportraits of, among others, Simone de Beauvoir, Pina Bausch, Elfride Jelinek, Kate Millett, Irmtraud Morgner, Alice Schwarzer, Kate Millet etc. 96 pages. . First Edition. Fine as New.

Bonn: Hohwacht, 1983. In photographic stiff wrappers in Near Fine condition.152 oages including many illustrations. * 7 essays including 'Female emancipation from the period before the 1848 Revolution; Women and socialism; Political equality under the Weimar Republic and discrimination under the Nazis; Women's rights and family law since the 19th century.. Near Fine.

Herndon, Virginia, U.S.A.: Academica Pr Llc, 2005. Fine as new in crisp clean burgundy hardcover with gilt lettering and title. 298 pages. Hard Cover. Fine as New.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1988. Fine as new in crisp blue hardcover with gilt lettering. This edition contains two of Frances Burney's comedies: The Witlings, (1778-80) which satirizes the bluestockings (but which was never performed for fear of scandal); and The Woman Hater (1800-02), which explores social pretension and gender conflict. By placing the two works= together, the book enables… Read more about this item

Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.: Stanford Univ Pr, 1991. Fine as new in black cloth hardcover with crisp dj ."Laurence's groundbreaking study teaches us how to read Virginia Woolf's psychological, social, historical, philosophical, rhythmic, and structural silences as it weaves multi-colored threads into a shimmering whole: Woolf's novels; the major works in Woolf criticism; the English literary tradition, male and female; surrealist… Read more about this item