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Author Coultrap-McQuin, Susan Margaret.

Title Doing literary business : American women writers in the nineteenth century / Susan Coultrap-McQuin.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [1990]
©1990

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 Moore Stacks  PS147 .C68 1990    Available  ---
Description xvi, 253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series Gender & American culture
Gender & American culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-242) and index.
Contents Why try a writing career?: the ambiguous cultural context for women writers of the mid-nineteenth century -- Gentlemen and ladies: ideals and economics in the literary marketplace -- The place of gender in business: the career of E.D.E.N. Southworth -- The impact of domestic feminism: Harriet Beecher Stowe's mature career -- The battle for a fair marketplace: Mary Abigail Dodge versus James T. Fields -- "Very serious literary labor": the career of Helen Hunt Jackson -- The demise of feminine strength: the career of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (Ward) -- A final word: literary professionalism and women.
Subject Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Women and literature.
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
American literature -- Women authors.
American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
American literature.
Authors and publishers -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Authors and publishers.
Literature publishing -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Literature publishing.
Authorship -- History -- 19th century.
Authorship.
ISBN 080781914X alkaline paper
0807842842 paperback alkaline paper