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Helen Maria Williams and the Age of Revolution. By DEBORAH KENNEDY. (Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture) Cranbury, NJ: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2002. 276 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8387-5511-9.
Mothering Daughters: Novels and the Politics of Family Romance. Frances Burney to Jane Austen. By SUSAN C. GREENFIELD. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press. 2002. 227 pp. $34.95. ISBN 0-8143-2992-6.
Although very different in scope and approach, Deborah Kennedy's and Susan C. Greenfield's works offer the reader a thorough panoramic view of the concerns shared by a variety of women writers in the Romantic period, and the different ways in which they rendered them into literature. Their works differ in that their respective focus is, in the case of the first book under review, a critical study of one writer, Helen Maria Williams, and in the second, an analysis on the topic of family romance in specific novels by six female writers: Frances Burney's Evelina (1778), Ann...
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