Self-Portrait of a Lady as an Absent Latinist
In The Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson, Lucy Hutchinson not only built a vibrant vindication of her late beloved husband, but also wrote an impressive account of the English Civil War. The genre demanded that this remarkably talented and knowledgeable woman remain self-effaced behind the man she prais...
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| الحاوية / القاعدة: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/aes, |
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| التنسيق: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| اللغة: | Anglais |
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Arts et Savoirs
2016
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| الملخص: | In The Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson, Lucy Hutchinson not only built a vibrant vindication of her late beloved husband, but also wrote an impressive account of the English Civil War. The genre demanded that this remarkably talented and knowledgeable woman remain self-effaced behind the man she praised. Here we find her, however, as much self-enhanced as self-effaced in the guise of the great latinist she was, author of the first complete translation of Lucretius in verse. |
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