print email comment close Before Victoria: Extraordinary Women of the British Romantic Era URL: http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/victoria/ Description: This online exhibit features essays on some of the intrepid revolutionary women who lived in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, when women could not join professions and married women had no rights to property or to their own children. Offers illustrated topical essays on Mary Wollstonecraft and other writers, artists, travelers, and women of the Romantic era. Includes a reading list. From the New York Public Library. Publisher: New York Public Library Library of Congress Subject Headings: Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 18th century Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century Romanticism Women -- Great Britain -- Biography Women adventurers LII Database Information: Record 4797 created by on 04/22/2005 Last modification on 04/26/2005 Published: 04/22/2005   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/4797