Writing Women's History Since the Renaissance

by Mary Spongberg

Book Overview

The complaint of Catherine Morland in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, that history has 'hardly any women at all' is not an uncommon one. Yet there is evidence to suggest that women have engaged in historical writing since ancient times.

This study traces the history of women's historical writing, reclaiming the lives of individual women historians, recovering women's historical writings from the past and focusing on how gender has...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333726685
• ISBN13: 9780333726686
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Red Globe Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.7"