| Description |
x, 357 pages : portraits ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 339-347. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Fact and fiction: Lady Mary Wroath and Anne Weamys -- Publish and be damned .. as a woman: Katherine Philips -- Biographical beginnings: Anne Cllifford, Lucy Hutchinson, Anne Fanshawe, Margaret Cavendish -- 'The fair triumvirate of wits': Aphra Behn, Delariviere Manley, Eliza Haywood -- Gross deception: 100 women novelists -- Power and progaganda -- The myth of the isolated achievement -- Male romance -- Women's view: 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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| Indexed Term |
Fiction in English Women writers, 1625-1837 - Critical studies |
| ISBN |
0863580815 |
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0863582516 (paperback) |
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