Authorship, Commerce, and Gender in Early Eighteenth-Century England
Subtitle: A Culture of Paper Credit
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 17, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780521023016
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English literature--18th century--History and; English literature--18th century--History and criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
First sentence: Writing to Henrietta Howard, Countess Suffolk, in June 1720, Elizabeth Molesworth, the wife of an army captain, describes her fascination with the financial opportunities available to those able to purchase stock in the South Sea Company.