Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-347) and index
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Fact and fiction: Lady Mary Wroath and Anne Weamys -- Publish and be damned . as a woman: Katherine Philips -- Biographical beginnings: Anne Cllifford, Lucy Hutchinson, Anne Fanshawe, Margaret Cavendish -- 'The fair triumvirate of wits': Aphra Behn, Delariviere Manley, Eliza Haywood -- Gross deception: 100 women novelists -- Power and progaganda -- The myth of the isolated achievement -- Male romance -- Women's view: women critics -- Sarah Fielding and misrepresentation -- Charlotte Lennox and North America -- Elizabeth Inchbald and independence -- Charlotte Smith and real life -- Ann Radcliffe and the Gothic -- Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Hays and autobiographical fiction -- Fanny Burney, Maria Edgeworth and the height of achievement -- Lady Morgan and political fiction -- Amelia Opie and the novel of ideas -- Mary Brunton: premature death and a rich bequest
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Lady Mary Wroath - Anne Weamys - Katherine Philips - Eliza Haywood - Sarah Fielding - Charlotte Lennox - Elizabeth Inchbald - Ann Radcliffe- Mary Wollstonecraft - Fanny Burney - Maria Edgeworth - Amelia Opie - Mary Brunton
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
English fiction-- 18th century-- History and criticism
English fiction-- Early modern, 1500-1700-- History and criticism
English fiction-- Women authors-- History and criticism
Women and literature-- Great Britain-- History
Écrits de femmes anglais - Histoire et critique
Roman anglais - 16e siècle - Histoire et critique
Roman anglais - 18e siècle - Histoire et critique