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Barbara Taylor is a British historian specialising in Enlightenment history, gender studies, and the history of subjectivity. She has taught at the University of East London since 1993, and held visiting posts at the universities of Amsterdam, Indiana, and Cambridge. She was a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Notre Dame in 2009.

Her publications include Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the 19th Century (1983), which received the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize; Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination (2003), Women, Gender and Enlightenment (co-edited with Sarah Knott, 2005), and On Kindness (co-written with Adam Phillips, 2009). Her writings have been translated into seven languages. She is th
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On Kindness

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3.54 avg rating — 684 ratings — published 2009 — 25 editions
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The Last Asylum: A Memoir o...

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Eve and the New Jerusalem: ...

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4.28 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2003 — 11 editions
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Man Who Stole Dreams

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