Becoming a woman of letters

Victorian myths of authorship, facts of the market

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Victorian myths of authorship, facts of the market

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English
Pages
312

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Cover of: Becoming a Woman of Letters
Becoming a Woman of Letters: Myths of Authorship and Facts of the Victorian Market
2021, Princeton University Press
in English
Cover of: Becoming a woman of letters
Becoming a woman of letters: Victorian myths of authorship, facts of the market
2009, Princeton University Press
in English

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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Princeton, N.J

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
820.9/928709034
Library of Congress
PR468.W6 P46 2009, PR468.W6P46 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
312

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL17101628M
ISBN 13
9780691140179
LCCN
2008036302
OCLC/WorldCat
244481660
Library Thing
8521623
Goodreads
5060046

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