Becoming a Woman of Letters Myths of Authorship and Facts of the Victorian Market / Linda H. Peterson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peterson, Linda H.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women and literature.

Printing.

Literature publishing--Economic aspects.

Literature and society.

English literature--Women authors.

English literature.

Books and reading.

Authorship--Economic aspects.

Authors and publishers.

Printing--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Literature and society--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Books and reading--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Authorship--Economic aspects--Great Britain.

Authorship.

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

Literature publishing--Economic aspects--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Literature publishing.

Authors and publishers--Great Britain--History--19th century.

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

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

Great Britain.

Genre:

History.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 p.) : 28 halftones.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

'Becoming a Woman of Letters' examines the ways in which women negotiated the market realities of authorship & looks at the myths & models constructed by women writers to elevate their place in the profession during the 19th century.

Contents:

Introduction

The nineteenth-century profession of letters and the woman author

Inventing the woman of letters : Harriet Martineau in the literary marketplace of the 1820s and 1830s

Working collaboratively : Mary Howitt and Anna Mary Howitt as women of letters

Parallel currents : The life of Charlotte Brontë as mid-Victorian myth of women's authorship

Challenging Brontëan myths of authorship : Charlotte Riddell and A struggle for fame (1883)

Transforming the poet : Alice Meynell as fin-de-siecle Englishwoman of letters

The woman of letters and the new woman : reinventing Mary Cholmondeley.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781400833252

1400833256

OCLC:

1249471843