Reviews for Literate women and the French Revolution of 1789

The average rating for Literate women and the French Revolution of 1789 based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-11-20 00:00:00 Calvin Dobbins Perfect timing; I have finished this work just in time for Goodreads' Romance week! (As you are allowed to fathom I still have more than one close friend who checks in on me periodically whenever I don't lose my phone.) This work has helped distract me from my corollary concerns. The library copy has a revolting pink border - it is so 12-year-old girly-girl that I have not in fact been inclined to search for an image of it on Google to replace the mystery Goodreads logo, as I'm not that way. I can't imagine that the author, Prof. Roberts, approved of it, but I did look for it later anyways, for no luck. My research revealed he died in 2018 at age 85 crossing a road in Florida. That article, in fact, says, "He wrote books on Jane Austen, the French Revolution and artist Jacques-Louis David." This book is about the first two subjects! (I wonder if he commissioned the artist to design the cover. I think it looks like it would appeal to a younger set of people.) I seem to have found his flagship 1979 book, so I appreciate it all the more! To be honest, I put in the front cover a list of all the mysteriously underlined words (I tallied them all up, as I have become that way, as well as all the blemishes), which I folded and stuck into the pocket for due date slips, as I figured if someone's looking for this book, they would be curious about all the miscellaneous problems with it. Ergo, so I didn't have to quite get another one of those popular romance novels going out the door, I went and found something which appealed to me - I approve of the historical figure who was Jane Austen - as well as how exactly she kept politics and wars at bay in her writing. This book elicits how the French Revolution wasn't having it and forced itself into her work whether she wanted it there or not. I, too, did not really want to learn French right away, so I learned Russian. HOWEVER French ends up showing up in Russian all the time anyway so it's just as well. You might be curious about what happened with that, as well... are you? There are other innuendos in here, as well, but you'd have to peek in and take a look for yourself to see what they are! I checked over the whole book which had unknown random underlining besides the only parts I was originally interested in (which were the war parts, thanks entirely to Caesar's De Bello Gallico, which I had to translate in maybe late-middle or early-high school - it means About the Gallic Wars), and ended up liking it. Gaul is divided into three parts! I'd have to refer to the Latin for the rest, that's all I have committed to memory. But that made me so gosh-darn happy remembering that! So my joy over recalling my youth transferred into happiness while reading this book in general. It's good now that I've read all of the Austen novels to start reading the literary criticism of them since now I can actually understand what they mean.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-07-13 00:00:00 Daniel Hilger Though despising the setup (book by book, rather than chapter by chapter), it did have some very useful commentary, as well as summing up the book in less than 50 pages, versus 320 pages. I was especially glad I had this when I got to the last 4 or 5 chapters of A Tale of Two Cities, because I was really tired and trying to finish it and missed a lot. I had no idea who was related to whom and how, or what was going on, and this did clear that up for me.