Thackeray’s daughter, herself a novelist, writes of four women who shaped English letters around 1800: the poet and essayist Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Maria Edgeworth, author of Castle Rackrent and The Absentee, the novelist Amelia Opie, and Jane Austen, whose growing fame she notes in her preface. She mixes biography, anecdote and affectionate criticism.
A graceful Victorian appreciation of women writers, delightful for readers of Austen and her contemporaries. Download the free EPUB.