Title: The professionalization of women writers in eighteenth-century Britain
First published: 2005
Description: "The Professionalization of Women Writers in Eighteenth-Century Britain is the first full study of a group of women who, though they have been dismissed as mere domestic, conservative, and imitative novelists, were actively and ambitiously engaged in a wide range of innovative publications, as well as in creating the formal and informal institutions of the republic of letters."--Jacket.
Subjects: Authors, English, Authorship, Biography, Economic aspects, Economic aspects of Authorship, English Authors, English Women authors, English literature, History, History and criticism, Sex difference, Women and literature, Women authors, Women authors, English, Women in the professions, Sex differences, English literature, history and criticism, 19th century
Places: Great Britain
Time periods: 18th century
LC classification: PR113 .S34 2005