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260 Pages -- Dustcover shows minor wear & slight tear - Book is in Fine Condition - 6 1/2 x 9 1/4 -

1st edition. ~ Cloth, dj, F/F. xxii+516pp, 8pp b/w plates, index, a nice fine as new copy. ~ New biography of Mary Wollstonecraft, cited as being the first feminist.

New 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall No Jacket, as Issued Cloth First Edition The first study of the posthumous life of Aphra Behn, the extraordinary vicissitudes of her critical reception, and the personal vilifications of her reputation through three centuries. Beginning with the reception of Behn's work during her lifetime, which she herself helped to orchestrate by performing herself as a seductive woman, a beleaguered lady writer, and a serious intellectual, among other roles, the work ends with the late 20th-century reception of Behn, when the interest in gender, race, and class has made of her almost a postmodern writer. In the 17th century she was seen as a playwright of sexy and propagandist comedies, and attacked by those who disapproved her supposedly unfeminine stance and her royalist politics. Later, as the Restoration period itself fell into disrepute, Behn's plays were denigrated along with those of her fellow men, but greater opprobrium fell on her as a woman, because in the 19th century it was felt that a female writer should have higher morals than a man. During this period, Behn's reputation was exceedingly low, while her short story Oroonoko gained acclaim, freed from any association with its author or her supposedly squalid times. In the 18th and 19th centuries Oroonoko moved from being viewed as political commentary and heroic romance to a sentimental tale of doomed love and then an abolitionist text. In the early twentieth century it was hailed as one of the earliest realist texts, part of the great English ascent into the novel. From the Series Studies in English & American Literature & Culture.

Famously castigated by Horace Walpole as 'a hyena in petticoats', Mary Wollstonecraft was 'the mother of modern feminism'. She was also the mother of Frankenstein's creator, Mary Shelley.Mary Wollstonecraft lived a life full of scandal, was vilified as a whore and 'unsex'd female'. Janet Todd is unrestrained in her determination to capture the life of this truly modern woman.

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