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In the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the 'woman writer' emerged as a category of authorship in England. Publishing the Woman Writer in England, 1670-1750 seeks to uncover how exactly this happened and the ways publishers tried to market a new kind of author to the public. Based on a survey of nearly seven hundred works with female authors from this period, this book contends that authorship was constructed, not always by the author, for marketappeal, that biography often supported an authorial persona rooted in the genre of the work, and that authorship was a role rather than an identity.Through an emphasis on paratexts, including prefaces, title pages, portraits, and biographical notes, Leah Orr analyses the representation of women writers in this period of intense change to make two related arguments. First, women writers were represented in a variety of ways as publishers sought successful models for a new kind of writer in print. Second, a new approach is needed for studying early women writers and others who occupy gaps in the historical record. This book shows that astudy of the material contexts of printed books is one way to work with the evidence that survives. It therefore begins with a very familiar kind of author-centric literary history and deconstructs it to conclude with a reception-centered history that takes a more encompassing view of authorship. Inaddition to analysis of many little-known and anonymous authors, case studies include Aphra Behn, Catharine Trotter/Cockburn, Laetitia Pilkington, Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy, and Anne Dacier.

Women and literature --- Women authors

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Focusing on England but covering a wide range of European and global traditions and influences, this authoritative volume examines the central role of medieval women in the production and circulation of books and considers their representation in medieval literary texts, as authors, readers and subjects, assessing how these change over time. Engaging with Latin, French, German, Welsh and Gaelic literary culture, it places British writing in wider European contexts while also considering more distant influences such as Arabic. Essays span topics including book production and authorship; reception; linguistic, literary, and cultural contexts and influences; women's education and spheres of knowledge; women as writers, scribes and translators; women as patrons, readers and book owners; and women as subjects. Reflecting recent trends in scholarship, the volume spans the early Middle Ages through to the eve of the Reformation and emphasises the multilingual, multicultural and international contexts of women's literary culture.

English literature --- Women and literature --- Literature, Medieval --- Women in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Women authors --- History and criticism

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During the 1890s, British women for the first time began to leave their family homes to seek work, accommodation, and financial and sexual freedom. Decadent Women is an account of some of these women who wrote for the innovative art and literary journal The Yellow Book.For the first time, based on original research, Jad Adams describes the lives and work of these vibrant and passionate women, from well-connected and fashionable aristocrats to the desperately poor. He narrates the challenges they faced in a literary marketplace, and within a society that overwhelmingly favoured men, showing how they were pioneers of a new style, living lives of lurid adventure and romance, as well as experiencing poverty, squalor, disease and unwanted pregnancy.

Femmes --- Femmes et littérature --- Yellow book (London, England) --- Women and literature --- Women --- Conditions sociales --- Conditions sociale --- History --- Social conditions --- Femmes et littérature

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This biography of Susan Glaspell traces the development of the first important American female playwright and illustrates the ways in which her fascinating, avant-garde life provided the model and materials for her groundbreaking dramas and fiction.

Authors [American ] --- 20th century --- Biography --- Women and literature --- United States --- History --- Women in the theater --- Authors, American --- Theater --- Glaspell, Susan, --- Cook, George Cram, --- Cook, Susan, --- Glaspel, Susan, --- Novelists, American --- Dramatists, American --- Women dramatists, American --- Women novelists, American

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This text examines the histories of gender, knowledge, families, bodies, art, and political thought in Victorian Britain, contributing to both literary studies and cross-disciplinary feminist scholarship.

Women and literature --- Authors, English --- History --- Dilke, Emilia Francis Strong, --- Pattison, Emilia Francis Strong, --- Strong, Emilia Francis, --- Great Britain --- Women authors, English --- Politicians' spouses --- Women art historians --- Women labor leaders --- Feminists --- Dilke, Charles Wentworth, --- Pattison, Mark, --- Marriage. --- Civilization