The scandalous memoirists : Constantia Phillips and Laetitia Pilkington and the shame of "publick fame"
"This reappraisal of the 'scandalous memoirists' Constantia Phillips and Laetitia Pilkington, who feature with a cast of other eighteenth-century apologists, overturns scholarship's traditional discrediting of them. Their reputations of immorality led them to be despised and disbelieved. However their experiences and revelations concerning the law, marriage, divorce, debt, sexual mores and women's attempts to by-pass patriarchal prescription, make a valuable contribution to our knowledge of the period." "Their life-writing enlivens and enriches eighteenth-century studies. While the memoirists point to the severe restrictions on women writers 'going public', they also demonstrate their skill in circumventing these, adopting strategies which continue to have relevance for writers today."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2000
Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, Manchester, UK, New York, 2000