Women's work
Subtitle: labour, gender, authorship, 1750-1830
By: Jennie Batchelor
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Distributed exclusively in the U.S. by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Manchester; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9780719082573
Subjects: History and criticism; Labor in literature; Women; Women authors; English fiction; Women in literature; Employment; History
Description: This text challenges influential accounts about gender and the novel by revealing the complex ways in which labour informed the lives and writing of a number of middling and genteel women authors publishing between 1750 to 1830.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [232]-244) and index.