Primitive Civilizations: Or, Outlines of the History of Ownership in Archaic Communities
The later twentieth century saw a huge wave of academic interest in women’s writing, which led to the rediscovery of neglected works from a wide range of genres, periods and languages. Many books that were immensely popular and influential in their own day are now studied again, both for their own sake and for what they reveal about the social, political and cultural conditions of their time. A pioneering resource in this area is Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present (http://orlando.cambridge.org), which provides entries on authors’ lives and writing careers, contextual material, timelines, sets of internal links, and bibliographies. Its editors have made a major contribution to the selection of the works reissued in this series within the Cambridge Library Collection, which focuses on non-fiction publications by women on a wide range of subjects from astronomy to biography, music to political economy, and education to prison reform.