Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750–1850 by Devoney Looser

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Reviewed by: Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750–1850 by Devoney Looser Susan Staves (bio) Devoney Looser. Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750–1850. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. Pp. 252. $55.00. Susan Staves Brandeis University Susan Staves Susan Staves is Paul Proswimmer Professor of the Humanities Emerita at Brandeis University. Her most recent book is A Literary History of Women’s Writing in Britain, 166o-1789 (Cambridge University Press, 2006). She is currently writing a book on the theory and rhetoric of rights in the British Empire in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Copyright © 2011 by the Trustees of Boston University