![]() ![]() In the cloister of the great days,Īs on a small scale in the college for women to-day, women were Public: but she was relieved by the circumstances of her environmentįrom the ceaseless competition in common life of woman with womanįor the favor of the individual man. In artistic production, since her work was freely set before the general She had the stimulus of competition with men in executive capacity, in scholarship, and Still have from popes and emperors to abbesses. Treated as an equal by men of her time as is witnessed by letters we Great spiritual rewards and great worldly prizes were alike within her grasp. The lady-abbess, on the other hand, was part of the two great socialįorces of her time, feudalism and the Church. Modern colleges for women only feebly reproduce it, since the collegeįor women has arisen when colleges in general are under a cloud. No institution of Europe has ever won for the lady the freedom andĭevelopment that she enjoyed in the convent in the early days. Women whose lives and works offer a field for profitable andĮmily James Putnam, in her acute study, The Lady, says Herrad, author of an encyclopædic work entitled Hortus Deliciarum, or Garden of Delight – these are but a few of the "the most voluminous woman writer of the Middle Ages" Seven dramas "caused the tragic muse to emerge once moreįrom the midnight gloom of the Middle Ages" 3 "the most important educational center in that part of Europe" Hroswitha of Gandersheim, whose Lioba, who made of her convent at Bischopsheim, Germany, Monastery at Whitby so successfully as to put it "in the forefront of intellectual agencies in Great Britain" the group of learned nuns who corresponded with St. More fascinating still would be a close study of the learned nuns of Of genius notable in the great days of Greece and Rome. It is difficult, for instance, to avoid some account of the women ![]() In such a sketch it is, indeed, a temptation to go farther backĪlong the path of history than a single volume would allow. Sketch of the work of learned women in England before 1650. This detailed study it seems desirable to give a preliminary The position and achievements of learned women in England T HE theme to which this volume is specifically limited is ![]() T HE S UPPOSED E DITORS OF T HE F EMALE S PECTATOR, M ARGARET C AVENDISH, D UCHESS OF N EWCASTLEįrom Horace Walpole's Royal and Noble Authorsįrom The Lives of William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle, and of his Wife, Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle S ATIRIC R EPRESENTATION OF THE L EARNED L ADY IN C OMEDY 372Ī NNE C LIFFORD, C OUNTESS OF D ORSET, P EMBROKE, AND M ONTGOMERY M ISCELLANEOUS B OOKS ON W OMEN IN S OCIAL AND I NTELLECTUAL L IFE 316 An Introductory Group in the Years 1650-1675 81Ģ. L EARNED L ADIES IN E NGLAND FROM1650 TO 1760 46ġ. L EARNED L ADIES IN E NGLAND BEFORE 1650 1 Professor of English Literature in the University of Chicago Vassar, 1897), Associate Professor of History in Vassar College.įrom an engraving in Edmund Lodge's Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain Vassar, 1891), Professor of Psychology in Vassar College.īRISSOT DE WARVILLE: A STUDY IN THE HISTORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. Vassar, 1891), Professor of Astronomy in Vassar College. INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF VARIABLE STARS. Vassar, 1888), Formerly Associate Professor of Comparative Literature in Bryn Mawr College. THE CUSTOM OF DRAMATIC ENTERTAINMENT IN SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS. Vassar, 1880), Professor of English Literature in Chicago University. THE LEARNED LADY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. Vassar, 1877), Professor of English in Vassar College. Vassar, 1876), Professor of English Literature in Smith College. A Celebration of Women Writers The Learned Lady in England 1650-1760.ĮLIZABETHAN TRANSLATIONS FROM THE ITALIAN.
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