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The Professionalization of Women Writers in Eighteenth-Century Britain Betty A. Schellenberg (Simon Fraser University, British Columbia)

The Professionalization of Women Writers in Eighteenth-Century Britain By Betty A. Schellenberg (Simon Fraser University, British Columbia)

The Professionalization of Women Writers in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Betty A. Schellenberg (Simon Fraser University, British Columbia)

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The Professionalisation of Women Writers in Eighteenth Century Britain is a full study of a group of women who were actively and ambitiously engaged in a range of innovative publications at the height of the eighteenth century.

The Professionalization of Women Writers in Eighteenth-Century Britain Summary

The Professionalization of Women Writers in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Betty A. Schellenberg (Simon Fraser University, British Columbia)

The Professionalisation of Women Writers in Eighteenth Century Britain is a full study of a group of women who were actively and ambitiously engaged in a range of innovative publications at the height of the eighteenth century. Using personal correspondence, records of contemporary reception, research into contemporary print culture and sociological models of professionalisation, Betty A. Schellenberg challenges oversimplified assumptions of women's cultural role in the period, focusing on those women who have been most obscured by literary history, including Frances Sheridan, Frances Brooke, Sarah Fielding and Charlotte Lennox.

The Professionalization of Women Writers in Eighteenth-Century Britain Reviews

'No less striking than the subtlety and learning that distinguish this study is the energy of Schellenberg's prose. This fine new book will establish Schellenberg as a major voice in the field.' Thomas Keymer, University of Oxford
'With admirable brilliance, lucidity, and grace, Schellenberg provides an illuminating corrective to assumptions that a woman writer can be defined as victim rather than as agent, or that gender is prime in determining an author's agency. In a cogent analysis of the works of a number of women authors, she reads their writings into the public sphere. This magisterial work is required reading for students of gender, literature, and history. ' Betty Rizzo, Professor Emerita, The City College of New York and the CUNY Graduate Centre

About Betty A. Schellenberg (Simon Fraser University, British Columbia)

Betty A. Schellenberg is Associate Professor of English at Simon Fraser University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Note on citations; Introduction: 'building on public approbation'; 1. Frances Sheridan, John Home, and public virtue; 2. The politicised pastoral of Frances Brooke; 3. Sarah Scott, historian, in the republic of letters; 4. The (female) literary careers of Sarah Fielding and Charlotte Lennox; 5. Harmless mediocrity: Edward Kimber and the Minifie sisters; 6. From propensity to profession in the early career of Frances Burney; 7. Women writers and 'the Great Forgetting'; Coda; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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The Professionalization of Women Writers in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Betty A. Schellenberg (Simon Fraser University, British Columbia)
Betty A. Schellenberg (Simon Fraser University, British Columbia)
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Cambridge University Press
2005-06-10
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