Slip-shod sibyls : recognition, rejection and the woman poet / Germaine Greer
1995, 1st edition. London : Viking. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #420243
ISBN: 0670849146
Physical description; xxiv, 517 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : portraits ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-501) and index. Contents; 1. The muse -- 2. Poet, poetaster, poetess -- 3. The transvestite poet -- 4. The enigma of Sappho -- 5. The rewriting of Katherine Philips -- 6. Did Aphra Behn earn a living by her pen? -- 7. Aphra Behn as ghostwriter -- 8. Rochester's niece -- 9. Wordsworth and Winchilsea : the progress of an error -- 10. Success and the single poet : the sad tale of L.E.L. -- 11. The perversity of Christina Rossetti. Subjects; Behn, Aphra 1640-1689. Sappho. Philips, Katherine 1631-1664. Lee, Ann 1736-1784. Winchilsea, Anne Kingsmill Finch Countess of 1661-1720. L. E. L. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon) 1802-1838. Rossetti, Christina Georgina 1830-1894. English poetry Women authors History and criticism. Women and literature History. Women poets History. Women poets, English History. English poetry Women authors. Canon (Literature), Women poets. Poetry Women authors History and criticism.
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