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This book explores how the publication of women's life writing influenced the reputation of its writers and of the genre itself during the long nineteenth century. It provides case studies of Frances Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Robinson and Mary Hays, four writers whose names were caught up in debates about the moral and literary respectability of publishing the 'private'. Focusing on gender, genre and authorship, this study examines key works of life writing by and about these women, and the reception of these texts. It argues for the importance of life writing--a crucial site of affective and imaginative identification--in shaping authorial reputation and afterlife. The book ultimately constructs a fuller picture of the literary field in the long nineteenth century and the role of women writers and their life writing within it.

Women in literature. --- Women and literature --- English literature --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- History --- History and cricitism. --- Women authors --- Hays, Mary, --- Robinson, Mary, --- Wollstonecraft, Mary, --- Burney, Fanny, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Perdita, --- Robinson, Perdita, --- Robinson, --- Friend to humanity, --- Laura Maria, --- Robinson, M. --- Juvenal, Horace, --- Randall, Anne Frances, --- Bramble, Tabitha, --- Robbinson, --- Arblay, --- D'Arblay, --- Burneĭ, --- Bi︠u︡rneĭ, --- Burney, Frances, --- D'Arblay, Fanny, --- D'Arblay, Frances Burney, --- Arblay, Frances Burney d', --- Author of Evelina, --- Evelina, Author of, --- Author of Evelina and Cecilia, --- Evelina and Cecilia, Author of, --- Author of Camilla, --- Camilla, Author of, --- Wood, --- Burney, Frances Anne, --- Wollstonecraft, Mary --- Cresswick, --- Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, --- authorship. --- auto/biography. --- celebrity. --- genre. --- life writing. --- literary afterlife. --- nineteenth century. --- reception. --- reputation. --- self-fashioning.