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028 _a: Brijwasi Book Distributors
_b: H-87, Lalita Park, Laxmi Nagar, Delhi.
_c: BW/00021
_d: 10/6/2024
082 _a823.809 PRI
100 _aPrins,Yopie.
245 _aLadies' Greek
_b: Victorian Translations of Tragedy.
_c/ Yopie Prins.
260 _a, New Jersey
_b: Princeton University Press
_c, 2017.
300 _axviii, 297p.
_c: 24cm.
365 _b2322
520 _aIn Ladies' Greek, Yopie Prins illuminates a culture of female classical literacy that emerged in the second half of the nineteenth century, during the formation of women's colleges on both sides of the Atlantic. Why did Victorian women of letters desire to learn ancient Greek, a "dead" language written in a strange alphabet and no longer spoken?
650 _aFemale classical literacy
650 _aVictorian women
650 _aCulture
700 _aYopie Prins
942 _cBOOK
999 _c61905
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