Not just Jane : rediscovering seven amazing women writers who transformed British literature / Shelley DeWees.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

DeWees, Shelley, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women authors, English--Biography.

Women authors, English.

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

English literature.

English literature--Women authors.

Women and literature--Great Britain--History.

Women and literature.

English fiction--History and criticism.

English fiction.

History.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Biographies.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

320 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Women writers who transformed British literature

Place of Publication:

New York : Harper Perennial, [2016]

Summary:

"Keynote Jane Austen and the Brontës endure as the leading ladies of English literature, but why are these reclusive parsons' daughters the only ones we remember? Funny and fascinating, Shelley DeWees's nonfiction debut, Not Just Jane, revisits British history through the extraordinary lives and work of seven long-forgotten authoresses--and wonders why they, and so many others, faded into obscurity (and what we are missing because of it)"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Charlotte Turner Smith (1749-1806)

Helen Maria Williams (1759-1827)

Mary Robinson (1758-1800)

Catherine Crowe (c. 1800-1876)

Sara Coleridge (1802-1852)

Dinah Mulock Craik (1826-1887)

Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915)

Afterword.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [285]-289).

Other Format:

Online version: DeWees, Shelley. Not just Jane.

ISBN:

9780062394620

0062394622

OCLC:

943668917