GREAT MODERN WOMEN - Lives of Conviction & Courage: Volume I - QUEENS OF LITERATURE

By Eva Hope

"I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward." - Charlotte Bront Great modern women are prolific in their number and so varied in their qualities - equal, in their multitudes, to 'great modern men' -yet too many of them are unknown of and not given full and dignified tribute for their roles in advancing the ascent of life - of Humankind.The series GREAT MODERN WOMEN presents the stories of some of the world's foremost female pioneers, ground-breakers of every barrier that appeared to bar progress, those who by their forthright actions stand out as leaders of the Modern Age, across all continents and disciplines - scientific, artistic, political, literary, religious, sporting, musical etc.

Volume #1 of GREAT MODERN WOMEN opens this series of books with an exploration of the lives of six of the greatest authors of the modern age, seminal authoresses dwelling atop the heights of World Literature. Eva Hope's classic volume of six concise biographies presents some of the true 'Queens of Literature' whose works live on unchallenged today.

This vital work, in a new, fully revised illustrated edition by Evelyn d'Arcy, presents the dramatic life-stories of women writers of science, poetry, maths, philosophy, fiction, economics, religion, politics etc. -

Authors whose lives are celebrated in Volume I of the GREAT MODERN WOMEN series are: Mary Somerville - this Scots woman possessed a most powerful scientific intellect. Like Newton, she was not only a scientist but a mathematician, referred to as a polymath on account of the vast extent of her learning. She was notably the first female Honorary Member of the Royal Astronomical Society, an honor shared only with Caroline HerschelHarriet Martineau - a truly unique figure in the history of English Literature, on the one hand a novelist of exceptional originality, on the other, a systematic, rigorous economic theorist who appreciated the impact of finances - mathematically, scientifically and socially. She is rightly acclaimed as being the first woman journalist as well as the first woman sociologistElizabeth Barrett-Browning - standing forth as perhaps the greatest female poet since Sappho, just as her husband Robert Browning stood forth as the greatest male poet since Homer, Barrett Browning is truly a poet of the Modern Age. She amazed the literary world with her poetry from 11 years of age, producing thoughtful, moving verse to the day of her deathCharlotte Bront - a novelist who needs no introduction, her sisters Emily and Anne are now widely acclaimed as authors in their own right. Though also a poet, her fame rests upon the four novels 'Jane Eyre', 'Shirley', 'The Professor' and Villette'. Her (and her sisters') impact on English Literature is so undeniable that one can describe it as being pre-Bront and post-Bront George Eliot - born 'Mary Ann Evans', this author's novels went on to be universally acclaimed as the finest works of English prose fiction ever produced by human pen. Eliot endures as a poet and a novelist, also shining as a translator of seminal works from German and Latin. Additionally, she is one of England's foremost journalists, worthy equal to Harriet MartineauFelicia Dorothea Hemans - best-selling female poet of her day, second in popularity only to Lord Byron, Hemans' poetry ranges from short works to long poems, from plays in verse to collections of poetry. A force to be reckoned with during the first decades of the Victorian era - one of her most important works is 'Records of Woman', where she sets straight some of the imbalances of history
- Includes the essay 'Introducing Queens of Literature' by editor Evelyn d'Arcy and a section of Textual Annotations explaining significant words, phrases and historical deta

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F5CNJMHZ
• ISBN13: 9798309488322
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 434 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"