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100 1 $aLooser, Devoney,$d1967-
245 10 $aWomen writers and old age in Great Britain, 1750-1850 /$cDevoney Looser.
260 $aBaltimore :$bJohns Hopkins University Press,$c2008.
300 $axvi, 234 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [205]-226) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: Women writers and old age, 1750-1850 -- Past the period of choosing to write a "love-tale"? : Frances Burney's and Maria Edgeworth's late fiction -- Catharine Macaulay's waning laurels -- What is old in Jane Austen? -- Hester Lynch Piozzi, antiquity of Bath -- "One generation passeth away, and another cometh" : Anna Letitia Barbauld's late literary work -- Jane Porter and the old woman writer's quest for financial independence -- Conclusion: "Old women now-a-days are not much thought of; out of sight out of mind with them, now-a-days."
520 1 $a"This study explores the later lives and writings of more than two dozen British women authors active during the long eighteenth century." "Drawing on biographical materials, literary texts, and reception histories, Devoney Looser finds that, far from fading into moribund old age, female literary greats toiled for decades after they achieved acclaim - despite seemingly concerted attempts by literary gatekeepers to marginalize their later contributions." "Illuminating the powerful and often poorly recognized legacy of the British women writers who spurred a marketplace revolution in their earlier years only to find unanticipated barriers to acceptance in later life. Looser opens up new scholarly territory in the burgeoning field of women's studies and aging."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aOlder women$zGreat Britain.
650 0 $aWomen and literature$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aWomen and literature$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aOld age$xSocial aspects$zGreat Britain.
600 10 $aEdgeworth, Maria,$d1767-1849$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 $aBurney, Fanny,$d1752-1840$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 $aBarbauld,$cMrs.$q(Anna Letitia),$d1743-1825$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 $aEdgeworth, Maria,$d1768-1849$xCriticism and interpretation.
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