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Names: Koch, Bea, author.
Title: Mad and Bad : Real Heroines of the Regency / Bea Koch.
Description: First edition. | New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “A feminist pop history that looks beyond the Ton and Jane Austen to highlight iconoclastic women of the Regency period who succeeded on their own terms and have largely been lost to history”—Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019049246 | ISBN 9781538701010 (trade paperback) | ISBN 9781538701027 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Women—Great Britain—19th century—Biography. | Women—Great Britain—Intellectual life—19th century. | Women intellectuals—Great Britain—Biography. | England—Social life and customs—19th century. | Great Britain—History—George IV, 1820-1830—Biography.
Classification: LCC HQ1595.A3 K64 220 | DDC 305.4092/241 [B]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019049246
ISBNs: 978-1-5387-0101-0 (trade pbk.), 978-1-5387-0102-7 (ebook)
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