| Collation |
x, 357 pages : portraits ; 23 cm |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliog. |
Bibliography: pages 339-347. |
| Note |
Includes index |
| Contents |
LITERARY ORIGINS : Fact and fiction -- Lady Mary Wroath and Anne Weamys -- Publish and be damned, as a woman -- Katherine Philips -- Biographical beginnings : Anne Clifford, Lucy Hutchinson, Anne Fanshawe, Margaret Cavendish -- The fair triumvirate of wits : Aphra Behn, Delariviere Manley, Eliza Haywood -- LITERARY STANDARDS : Gross deception : 100 women novelists -- Power and propaganda -- The myth of the isolated achievement -- Male romance -- LITERARY ACHIEVEMENTS : Women's views : women critics -- Sarah Fielding and misrepresentation -- Charlotte Lennox and North America -- Elizabeth Inchbald and independence -- Charlotte Smith and real life -- Ann Radcliffe and the Gothic -- Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Hays and autobiographical fiction -- Fanny Burney, Maria Edgeworth and the height of achievement -- Lady Morgan and political fiction -- Amelia Opie and the novel of ideas -- Mary Brunton : premature death and a rich bequest |
| Subject |
English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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English fiction -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
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Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History.
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| ISBN |
0863580815 : |
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0863582516 (pbk.) : |
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