Not just Jane
Subtitle: rediscovering seven amazing women writers who transformed British literature
By: Shelley DeWees
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780062394620
Subjects: English literature; History and criticism; Women authors; Women and literature; English fiction; English Women authors; Biography; History
Description: "Keynote Jane Austen and the Brontës endure as the leading ladies of English literature, but why are these reclusive parsons' daughters the only ones we remember? Funny and fascinating, Shelley DeWees's nonfiction debut, Not Just Jane, revisits British history through the extraordinary lives and work of seven long-forgotten authoresses--and wonders why they, and so many others, faded into obscurity (and what we are missing because of it)"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-320).
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Charlotte Turner Smith (1749-1806); title: Helen Maria Williams (1759-1827); title: Mary Robinson (1758-1800); title: Catherine Crowe (c. 1800-1876); title: Sara Coleridge (1802-1852); title: Dinah Mulock Craik (1826-1887); title: Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915); title: Afterword.