Great female writers of the eighteenth century: Trailblazers and radicals
Dive into the works of great female writers held in the Library's rare books collection.
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Dive into the works of great female writers held in the Library's rare books collection.
The Last Libertines by Benedetta Craveri review – dangerous liaisons Caroline Moorehead © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Peter Horree/Alamy Stock Photo When the terrors of the French Revolution had passed, many of those aristocrats who had survived sat down to write their memoirs about the last years of the ancien régime, and the turmoil that followed. Seldom has there been an age, or a group of people, so committed to remembering and recording, whose existence was predicated on subtlety of thought and eloquence of expression. Often they wrote at great length: the ...