Women-Great Britain-Biography, Great Britain-History-1789-1820-Biography, Great Britain-History-1800-1837-Biography, Great Britain-Social conditions-18th century, Great Britain-Social conditions-19th century, Great Britain-Biography 

(SBN) 0231136307 (cased)||(GEN) "Published on the occasion of the exhibition, Before Victoria: extraordinary women of the British Romantic era, presented at the New York Public Library, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, D. Samuel and Jeane H. Gottesman Exhibition Hall, April 8-July 30, 2005"--T.p. verso||(GEN) Formerly CIP||(BIB) Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-180) and index||(CON) Mary Robinson, eighteenth-century romantic -- Exemplary women : Mary Wollstonecraft, Hannah More, and their worlds -- Not quite good enough : three imperfect lives -- The modern Venus, or improper ladies, and others -- Strong passions of the mind : women in literature and the visual arts -- Rational dames and ladies on horseback : scientists and travelers -- The youngest romantics -- The Pforzheimer Collection and its female inhabitants : an afterword 

xii, 188 p. : ill (some col.). ; 27 cm. (pbk)