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Author McMahon, Lucia, author.

Title The celebrated Elizabeth Smith : crafting genius and transatlantic fame in the Romantic era / Lucia McMahon
Published Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2022
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 343 pages) : illustrations
Series Jeffersonian America
Jeffersonian America.
Contents Introduction: "Under the same roof" -- "Rocky precipices" : between meadows and mountains -- "Well furnished at present" : a community of learned ladies -- "At the foot of the tower" : picturesque wanderings and the search for home -- "Rejoice in their own energy" : enacting a learned life -- "Thoughts of publishing a little biographical work" : transition to the afterlife -- "A lasting and meritorious monument" : the life of Fragments -- "Lives in this record" : an afterlife, in prose and verse -- "To tread in thy footsteps" : literary tourism -- Conclusion: "She was no blue-stocking."
Summary "This biography recounts the life of Elizabeth Smith (1776-1806), as well as discussing her posthumous literary fame in Britain and the United States"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 21, 2022)
Subject Smith, Elizabeth, 1776-1806.
SUBJECT Smith, Elizabeth, 1776-1806 fast
Subject Women translators -- Great Britain -- Biography
Women scholars -- Great Britain -- Biography
Women -- Great Britain -- Intellectual life
Romanticism -- Great Britain
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
Intellectual life
Romanticism
Women -- Intellectual life
Women scholars
Women translators
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056855
Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056856
Subject Great Britain
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2022021134
ISBN 9780813947877
0813947871