Women writers and old age in Great Britain, 1750-1850 / Devoney Looser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Looser, Devoney, 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Barbauld, Mrs. (Anna Letitia), 1743-1825.

Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840.

Edgeworth, Maria, 1768-1849.

English literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--Women authors.

Older women--Great Britain.

Older women.

Women and literature--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Women and literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

Old age--Social aspects.

Great Britain.

History.

Women and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Old age--Social aspects--Great Britain.

Old age.

Edgeworth, Maria, 1768-1849--Criticism and interpretation.

Edgeworth, Maria.

Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840--Criticism and interpretation.

Burney, Fanny.

Barbauld, Mrs. (Anna Letitia), 1743-1825--Criticism and interpretation.

Barbauld.

Physical Description:

xvi, 234 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.

Contents:

Introduction: Women Writers and Old Age, 1750-1850 1

1 Past the Period of Choosing to Write a "Love-tale"? Frances Burney's and Maria Edgeworth's Late Fiction 31

2 Catharine Macaulay's Waning Laurels 51

3 What Is Old in Jane Austen? 75

4 Hester Lynch Piozzi, Antiquity of Bath 97

5 "One generation passeth away, and another cometh": Anna Letitia Barbauld's Late Literary Work 118

6 Jane Porter and the Old Woman Writer's Quest for Financial Independence 141

Conclusion: "Old women now-a-days are not much thought of; out of sight out of mind with them, now-a-days" 168.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-226) and index.

ISBN:

9780801887055

0801887054

OCLC:

190620989

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