The Eighteenth-Century Woman

"brief biographies of 14 fascinating women from the Eighteenth Century. These were women such as Abigail Adams, Rose Bertin, Vigee-Lebrun and Madame Pompadour who were women of their time and yet, in many ways, curiously modern."-amazon reviewer Published in conjunction with the exhibition "The Eighteenth-Century Woman (The Metropolitan museum of Art, December 1981-September 1982).