The Professionalization of Women Writers in Eighteenth-Century Britain

The Professionalization of Women Writers in Eighteenth-Century Britain
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 388
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ISBN-10 : 9781107320802
ISBN-13 : 1107320801
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Download or read book The Professionalization of Women Writers in Eighteenth-Century Britain written by Betty A. Schellenberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-06-16 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Professionalisation of Women Writers in Eighteenth Century Britain is a full study of a group of women who were actively and ambitiously engaged in a range of innovative publications at the height of the eighteenth century. Using personal correspondence, records of contemporary reception, research into contemporary print culture and sociological models of professionalisation, Betty A. Schellenberg challenges oversimplified assumptions of women's cultural role in the period, focusing on those women who have been most obscured by literary history, including Frances Sheridan, Frances Brooke, Sarah Fielding and Charlotte Lennox.


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