The rise of the woman novelist
Subtitle: from Aphra Behn to Jane Austen
By: Jane Spencer.
Publisher: Blackwell
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Oxford, UK; New York, NY, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
Subjects: English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism; English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism; Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Women in literature; Feminism and literature -- Great Britain
Description: "Feminist studies of women's writing have tended to concentrate on writers of the 19th and 20th centuries. This book, which examines women novelists from Aphra Behn to Fanny Burney, is intended to redress the balance and to argue for the crucial importance of the 18th century to developing female identities in literature. The scope of the book is wide, with references ranging from Sarah Fielding, Ann Radcliffe and Mary Wollstonecraft to Jane Austen."--amazon.ca desc.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.