Eighteenth-Century Women's Images and Roles
The Case of Hester Thrale Piozzi
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3806471 |
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| Authors | Martine Watson Brownley (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 65-76 |
| Publication date | 1980-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Biography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-4962 • E-ISSN: 1529-1456 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/bio.2010.0867 |
| OpenAlex | W1992811419 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
The changing self-images in the autobiographical writings of Hester Thrale Piozzi reflect her struggle to come to terms with the traditional feminine images accepted by her culture. Piozzi's journals record the costs of maintaining and altering these images, illuminating the problems that were beginning to force changes in society's views of women
Art · Literature · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society
| Highly cited | No |
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