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A new way of looking at older women writers.(Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750-1850)(Book review)
Devoney Looser. Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750-1850. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2008. 252 pages. Hardcover $55.00.
"Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force." --Dorothy L. Sayers
Devoney Looser's new book, Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750-1850, is so meticulously researched and her prose so pleasantly lucid and unassuming that it might be possible to miss the almost revolutionary nature of just what she is suggesting. Grounding her discussion in the work of established experts on age and aging in Britain such as Pat Thane, Peter Stearns, ...
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