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LEADER: 01979nam a22003378a 4500
001 2008036302
003 DLC
005 20080825104342.0
008 080818s2009 nju b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9780691140179 (cl : alk. paper)
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050 00 $aPR468.W6$bP46 2009
082 00 $a820.9/928709034$222
100 1 $aPeterson, Linda H.
245 10 $aBecoming a woman of letters :$bVictorian myths of authorship, facts of the market /$cLinda H. Peterson.
260 $aPrinceton, N.J. :$bPrinceton University Press,$cc2009.
263 $a0906
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: 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.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aWomen and literature$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aAuthors and publishers$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aLiterature publishing$xEconomic aspects$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAuthorship$xEconomic aspects$zGreat Britain.
650 0 $aBooks and reading$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aLiterature and society$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aPrinting$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century.