Ladies' Greek: Victorian Translations of Tragedy

by Yopie Prins

Book Overview

In Ladies' Greek, Yopie Prins illuminates a culture of female classical literacy that emerged in the second half of the nineteenth century, during the formation of women's colleges on both sides of the Atlantic. Why did Victorian women of letters desire to learn ancient Greek, a "dead" language written in a strange alphabet and no longer spoken? In the words of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, they wrote "some Greek upon the margin--lady's Greek,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691141894
• ISBN13: 9780691141893
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"