The professionalization of women writers in eighteenth-century Britain /

The professionalization of women writers in eighteenth-century Britain /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Schellenberg, Betty A.
Imprint:	Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Description:	1 online resource (x, 250 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism. Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. Authorship -- Economic aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. Women in the professions -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism. Authorship -- Sex differences -- History -- 18th century. Authors, English -- 18th century -- Biography. Women authors, English -- Biography. Authors, English. Authorship -- Economic aspects. Authorship -- Sex differences. English literature. English literature -- Women authors. Women and literature. Women authors, English. Women in the professions. Great Britain. Biographies. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11832217

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ISBN:	9781107321939 110732193X 9780511839078 0511839073 9780511597633 0511597630 0521850606 9780521850605 9780521093415 0521093414
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-244) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	"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.
Other form:	Print version: Schellenberg, Betty A. Professionalization of women writers in eighteenth-century Britain. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005 0521850606

Table of Contents:

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.