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The Professionalization of Women Writers in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Hardcover, New)
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The Professionalization of Women Writers in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Hardcover, New)
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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 publication, as well as in creating the
formal and informal institutions of the republic of letters.
Working at the height of the century and contributing to its
proliferation of print materials from the 1740s onwards, these
women - Frances Sheridan, Frances Brooke, Sarah Scott, Sarah
Fielding, and Charlotte Lennox - were welcomed as participants in
the literary and even political public spheres. Using personal
correspondence, records of contemporary reception, research into
contemporary print culture, and sociological models of
professionalization, Betty A. Schellenberg challenges
oversimplified assumptions of women's cultural role in the
period...
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