The only available English translation of writings by an Enlightenment-era Dutch aristocrat, writer, composer-and woman. Born Dutch, noble, and free-spirited, I

"England, 1819. While British high society primps and plays, the impoverished citizens of London languish. But there are those fighting for the freedom of commo

Writing Lives in the Eighteenth Century is a collection of essays on memoir, biography, and autobiography during a formative period for the genre. Employing the