Title Becoming a woman of letters : Victorian myths of authorship, facts of the market / Linda H. Peterson.

Publication Info.	Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2009]
	©2009

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Moore Stacks	PR468.W6 P46 2009	Available	---

Description	xv, 289 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction: the 19th-century profession of letters and the woman author -- Inventing the woman of letters: Harriet Martineau in the literary -- Marketplace of the 1820's and 30's -- Working collaboratively: Mary Howitt and Anna Mary Howitt as women of letters -- Parallel currents: the life of Charlotte Bronte as mid-victorian -- Myth of women's authorship -- Challenging Brontean myths of authorship: Charlotte Riddell and a struggle for fame (1883) -- Transforming the poet: Alice Meynell as fin-de-siecle -- Englishwoman of letters -- The woman of letters and the new woman: reinventing Mary Cholmondeley.
Subject	English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
	English literature -- Women authors.
	Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
	Women and literature.
	Great Britain.
	History.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	Authors and publishers -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
	Authors and publishers.
	Literature publishing -- Economic aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
	Literature publishing -- Economic aspects.
	Literature publishing.
	English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
	English literature.
	Authorship -- Economic aspects -- Great Britain.
	Authorship -- Economic aspects.
	Authorship.
	Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
	Books and reading.
	Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
	Literature and society.
	Printing -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
	Printing.
ISBN	9780691140179 cl alkaline paper
	0691140170 cl alkaline paper

Title Becoming a woman of letters : Victorian myths of authorship, facts of the market / Linda H. Peterson.

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