| Description |
1 online resource (x, 250 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-244) and index. |
| Summary |
"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. |
| Contents |
Frances Sheridan, John Home, and public virtue -- The politicized pastoral of Frances Brooke -- Sarah Scott, historian, in the republic of letters -- The (female) literary careers of Sarah Fielding and Charlotte Lennox -- Harmless mediocrity: Edward Kimber and the Minifie sisters -- From popensity to profession in the early career of Frances Burney -- Women writers and "the Great Forgetting. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- Women authors. |
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Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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Women and literature. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
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Authorship -- Economic aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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Authorship -- Economic aspects. |
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Authorship. |
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Women in the professions -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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Women in the professions. |
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English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
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Authorship -- Sex differences -- History -- 18th century.
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Authorship -- Sex differences. |
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Authors, English -- 18th century -- Biography.
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Authors, English. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Women authors, English -- Biography.
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Women authors, English -- Biography. |
| Chronological Term |
1700-1799 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Schellenberg, Betty A. Professionalization of women writers in eighteenth-century Britain. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005 0521850606 (DLC) 2005047512 (OCoLC)60349066 |
| ISBN |
9781107321939 (electronic book) |
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110732193X (electronic book) |
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9780511839078 (e-book) |
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0511839073 (e-book) |
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9780511597633 (ebook) |
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0511597630 (ebook) |
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0521850606 |
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9780521850605 |
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9780521093415 |
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0521093414 |
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