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- Jenny Davidson
- I have published four novels and four books of literary criticism; I'm currently at work on a book called FOR THE LOVE OF BROKEN THINGS: MY FATHER, EDWARD GIBBON AND THE RUINS OF ROME. I teach in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
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In light of Mantel's comments on not knowing about women's lives in the French Revolution, I wonder how many of the books on the syllabus for your class on Women, Politics, and the Novel in the 1790s were published as Virago Modern Classics. Susan Ferrier's Marriage was one of them because people had those distinctive green-spined copies from abebooks. A few years ago, I saw a whole box of them for sale at the Symphony Space book sale, and I still regret not taking it. Instead, I bought a single copy of Sarah Scott's Milennium Hall. I wish I knew which other eighteenth-century women novelists they published, but the author retrospective timeline on the Virago site starts at 1800.
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