{"product_id":"epistles-on-women-and-other-works","title":"Epistles On Women and Other Works","description":"\u003cp\u003e\nHenry James wrote of Lucy Aikin: “Clever, sagacious, shrewd ... and an accomplished writer, one wonders why her vigorous intellectual temperament has not attracted independent notice.” The most important long poem by a woman from the British Romantic era, Aikin’s \u003cem\u003eEpistles on Women\u003c\/em\u003e (1810) is the first text in English to re-write the entire history of western culture, from the creation story of Genesis through the eighteenth century, from a feminist perspective. Responding to Alexander Pope’s misogynistic “Epistle to a Lady,” Aikin argues that men’s degradation of women has hindered the growth of civilization, and provides historical and literary evidence for her claim that “man cannot degrade woman without degrading himself.”\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nIn addition to \u003cem\u003eEpistles on Women\u003c\/em\u003e, this Broadview Edition also includes a wide selection of poetry, historical writing, fiction, memoir, and literary criticism by Aikin, as well as letters, contemporary reviews, and other feminist historiographies.\n\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broadview Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":66233363005789,"sku":null,"price":34.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/3893\/2573\/files\/9781551117133.jpg?v=1792200832","url":"https:\/\/shop.gazellebookservices.co.uk\/products\/epistles-on-women-and-other-works","provider":"Gazelle Book Services","version":"1.0","type":"link"}