Slip-Shod Sibyls: Recognition, Rejection and the Woman Poet

By Germaine Greer

Book Overview

The term "slip-shod sibyls", adapted from a gibe of Alexander Pope, encapsulates the common contempt for the half-educated women who dared to expose themselves in the pre-1900 literary market-place.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670849146
• ISBN13: 9780670849147
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Viking Pr
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.4" x 1.8" x 6.2"