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Article: Dr Johnson's Women.(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- October 1, 2002
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2002 Modern Humanities Research Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Dr Johnson's Women. By NORMA CLARKE. London and New York: Hambledon. 2000. xii + 260 pp. 19.95 [pounds sterling].
Small Change: Women, Learning and Patriotism, 1750-1810. By HARRIET GUEST. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2000. xi + 350 pp. $49; 31 [pounds sterling] (pbk $18; 11.50 [pounds sterling]).
The starting point of Norma Clarke's highly readable 'collective biography' of 'Dr Johnson's women' is a remark recorded but sidelined in Boswell's Life of Johnson: 'I dined yesterday at Mrs Garrick's, with Mrs Carter, Miss Hannah More, and Miss Fanny Burney. Three such women are not to be found; I know not where I could find a fourth, except Mrs ...
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