Synopses & Reviews
Review
"Mrs. Hufstader's biographies of four fascinating 18th-century writers—Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Mary Granville Delany, Elizabeth Robinson Montagu, and Fanny Burney—is the sort of work which does service to the cause of women's studies. Hufstader's prose is unmarred by tendentiousness, filled with grace and vibrancy, and her subjects are women whose lives are eminently worth telling. Though not written for scholars, Sisters of the Quill brings the 18th century and some of its more splendid women alive in a way that scholars and general readers alike will find engaging and illuminating." Reviewed by Robert Jackson, Virginia Quarterly Review (Copyright 2006 Virginia Quarterly Review)