Women entered the book trade in significant numbers in China during
the late sixteenth century, when it became acceptable for women
from "good families" to write poetry and seek to publish their
collected poems. At about the same time, a boom in the publication
of fiction began, and semiprofessional novelists emerged.
This study begins with three case studies, each of which probes
one facet of the relationship between women and fiction in the
early nineteenth century. It examines in turn the prefaces written
by four women for a novel about women; the activities of a woman
editor and writer of fiction; and writings on fiction by three
leading literary women. Building on these case studies, the second
half of the book focuses on the many sequels to the Dream of the
Red Chamber--one of which was demonstrably written by a woman--and
the significance of this novel for women. As Ellen Widmer shows, by
the end of the century, women were becoming increasingly involved
in the novel as critical readers, writers, and editors. And if
women and their relationship to fiction changed over the nineteenth
century, the novel changed as well, not the least in its growing
recognition of the importance of female readers.
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