Women's work : labour, gender, authorship, 1750-1830 / Jennie Batchelor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Batchelor, Jennie, 1976- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--18th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

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

Labor in literature.

Women in literature.

Women--Employment--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Women.

Women--Employment--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 249 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

Paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This book challenges influential accounts about gender and the novel by revealing the complex ways in which labour informed the lives and writing of a number of middling and genteel women authors publishing between 1750 and 1830. It provides a seam of texts for exploring the vexed relationship between gender, work and writing. The four chapters that follow contain contextualised case studies of the treatment of manual, intellectual and domestic labour in the work and careers of Sarah Scott, Charlotte Smith, Mary Wollstonecraft and women applicants to the writers' charity, the Literary Fund. By making women's work visible in our studies of female-authored fiction of the period, the book reveals the crucial role that these women played in articulating debates about the gendered division of labour, the (in)compatibility of women's domestic and professional lives, and the status and true value of women's work, which shaped eighteenth-century culture as surely as they do our own.

Contents:

9780719082467; 9780719082467; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Archaeology and Elizabeth's empire; 2 Elizabethan fortifications in Ireland; 3 Colonial settlement; 4 Vernacular architecture; 5 The archaeology of Kilcolman Castle; 6 Spenserian architecture in Ireland; 7 Conclusions; Select bibliography; Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Apr 2026).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781847797766

1847797768

9781781701829

1781701822

9781847792679

1847792677

OCLC:

818847443