The Enlightenment of age

<br/>‘Women seem to be destined solely for our pleasure. When they no longer have that attraction, they have lost everything’ (letter from Diderot to Sophie Volland, 1762). How typical was this view of the ‘older woman’ in the eighteenth century? What was it like for women of intelligence and...

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Autor principal: Stewart, J
Format: Llibre
Idioma:English
Publicat: Voltaire Foundation 2017