Iona Italia

Standard Name: Italia, Iona

Connections

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Literary responses Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Iona Italia has discussed Montagu's paper and its relation to Common Sense, or The Englishman's Journal in The Rise of Literary Journalism in the Eighteenth Century. Anxious Employment, 2005.
Textual Features Eliza Haywood
The Female Spectator is acutely class-conscious, and addresses its advice on education to the gentry or aspiring gentry—while also delivering the message, as critic Iona Italia puts it, that [g]entlemen may be a subgroup of...

Timeline

8 March 1710: A character in The Female Tatler, Emilia,...

Building item

8 March 1710

A character in The Female Tatler, Emilia, remarked that if it had not been for male tyranny we [i.e. women] had sat in Parliament long before this time.
Italia, Iona. The Rise of Literary Journalism in the Eighteenth Century. Anxious employment. Routledge, 2005.
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Texts

Italia, Iona. Philosophers, Knights-Errant, Coquettes and Old Maids. Cambridge University, 1997.
Italia, Iona. The Rise of Literary Journalism in the Eighteenth Century. Anxious employment. Routledge, 2005.