The professionalization of women writers in eighteenth-century Britain /
[Book]
Betty A. Schellenberg.
New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2005.
1 online resource (x, 250 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-244) and index.
Frances Sheridan, John Home, and public virtue -- The politicized pastoral of Frances Brooke -- Sarah Scott, historian, in the republic of letters -- The (female) literary careers of Sarah Fielding and Charlotte Lennox -- Harmless mediocrity: Edward Kimber and the Minifie sisters -- From popensity to profession in the early career of Frances Burney -- Women writers and "the Great Forgetting.
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"The Professionalization of Women Writers in Eighteenth-Century Britain is the first full study of a group of women who, though they have been dismissed as mere domestic, conservative, and imitative novelists, were actively and ambitiously engaged in a wide range of innovative publications, as well as in creating the formal and informal institutions of the republic of letters."--Jacket.
Professionalization of women writers in eighteenth-century Britain.
0521850606
Authors, English-- 18th century, Biography.
Authorship-- Economic aspects-- Great Britain-- History-- 18th century.
Authorship-- Sex differences-- History-- 18th century.
English literature-- 18th century-- History and criticism.
English literature-- Women authors-- History and criticism.
Women and literature-- Great Britain-- History-- 18th century.
Women authors, English, Biography.
Women in the professions-- Great Britain-- History-- 18th century.