Their Fathers' Daughters: Hannah More, Maria Edgeworth, and Patriarchal Complicity

By Elizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace

Current feminist theory has developed powerful explanations for some women writers' rebellion against patriarchy. But other women writers did not rebel; rather, they supported and celebrated patriarchy. Examining the lives and selected works of two late eighteenth-century writers, Hannah More and Maria Edgeworth, this book explores what it means for a woman writer to identify with her father and the patriarchal tradition he represents. Kowaleski-Wallace exposes the psychological, social, and historical factors that motivated such an identification, and reveals the consequences that result from being a "daddy's girl."

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019506853X
• ISBN13: 9780195068535
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.6"