Women's place in Pope's world
How was Alexander Pope's personal experience of women transformed into poetry, and how in turn did he and his writing figure in the lives of the women he wrote about? How characteristic of his age was Pope's attitude towards women? What exactly was the role in his life of individual women such as his mother, Patty Blount and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu?
Biography
xvii, 315 pages : portraits ; 24 cm.
9780521363082, 052136308X
18981801
List of plates
Preface
Abbreviations
1. Assumptions and ironies
2. Women at home
3. Reigning beauties
4. Rebellious sympathies
5. A choice of sisters
6. Female wit
7. Headstrong duchesses
8. Victims of state
9. 'I love you upon unalterable principles'
Bibliography
Index