British Women Writers and the Reception of Ancient Egypt, by Molly Youngkin

By Molly Youngkin

Focusing on British girls writers' wisdom of old Egypt, Youngkin exhibits the normally restricted yet pervasive representations of historical Egyptian girls of their written and visible works. photos of Hathor, Isis, and Cleopatra stimulated how British writers equivalent to George Eliot and Edith Cooper got here to symbolize lady emancipation.

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