Sara Heller Mendelson

Standard Name: Mendelson, Sara Heller

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Aphra Behn
AB 's biographer Sara Mendelson feels that the stories from the last months of her life include some of her finest.
Mendelson, Sara Heller. The Mental World of Stuart Women: Three Studies. Harvester Press, 1987.
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Literary responses Margaret Cavendish
Douglas Grant published a life in 1957: Margaret the First: A Biography of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, 1623-1673. Late in the twentieth century, interest in her and her work escalated steeply. The first...
Occupation Elizabeth Walker
EWaccounted it not only an Indispensable Duty to be done, but an high Honour to be intrusted by God, with the care of bringing up a Child for him.
Walker, Anthony, and Elizabeth Walker. The Vertuous Wife: or, the Holy Life of Mrs. Elizabth Walker. J. Robinson, A. and J. Churchill, J. Taylor, and J. Wyat, 1694.
67
All her household skills...
Textual Production Aphra Behn
AB 's poems were mostly opportunistic in some way, seizing the chances offered her, either by projects of literary colleagues or by royal or other grand occasions, to make some money. She makes much use...
Textual Production Aphra Behn
The essay is reprinted by Sylvia Bowerbank and Sara Mendelson , editors of Margaret Cavendish , among contextual material relevant to Cavendish's interests, as a woman's promotion of women's right of access to the new science.
Cavendish, Margaret. Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader. Editors Bowerbank, Sylvia and Sara Heller Mendelson, Broadview, 2000.
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Cavendish, Margaret. “Introduction”. Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader, edited by Sylvia Bowerbank and Sara Heller Mendelson, Broadview, 2000, pp. 9-37.
Cavendish, Margaret. Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader. Editors Bowerbank, Sylvia and Sara Heller Mendelson, Broadview, 2000.
Mendelson, Sara Heller. The Mental World of Stuart Women: Three Studies. Harvester Press, 1987.
Mendelson, Sara Heller, and Patricia Crawford. Women in Early Modern England, 1550-1720. Clarendon Press, 1998.