Becoming a woman of letters
Subtitle: Victorian myths of authorship, facts of the market
By: Linda H. Peterson.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780691140179
Subjects: English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Authors and publishers -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Literature publishing -- Economic aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Authorship -- Economic aspects -- Great Britain; Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Printing -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the 19th-century profession of letters and the woman author; title: Inventing the woman of letters: Harriet Martineau in the literary; title: Marketplace of the 1820's and 30's; title: Working collaboratively: Mary Howitt and Anna Mary Howitt as women of letters; title: Parallel currents: the life of Charlotte Bronte as mid-victorian; title: Myth of women's authorship; title: Challenging Brontean myths of authorship: Charlotte Riddell and a struggle for fame (1883); title: Transforming the poet: Alice Meynell as fin-de-siecle; title: Englishwoman of letters; title: The woman of letters and the new woman: reinventing Mary Cholmondeley.