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"This study explores the later lives and writings of more than two dozen British women authors active during the long eighteenth century." "Drawing on biographical materials, literary texts, and reception histories, Devoney Looser finds that, far from fading into moribund old age, female literary greats toiled for decades after they achieved acclaim - despite seemingly concerted attempts by literary gatekeepers to marginalize their later contributions." "Illuminating the powerful and often poorly recognized legacy of the British women writers who spurred a marketplace revolution in their earlier years only to find unanticipated barriers to acceptance in later life. Looser opens up new scholarly territory in the burgeoning field of women's studies and aging."--BOOK JACKET.

English literature --- Older women --- Women and literature --- Old age --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- History --- Social aspects --- Edgeworth, Maria, --- Burney, Fanny, --- Barbauld, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Later life (Human life cycle) --- Senescence --- Adulthood --- Age --- Longevity --- Older people --- Aged women --- Women --- Aikin, Anna Lætitia, --- Author of Lessons for children, --- Barbauld, A. L. --- Barbauld, Anna Letitia, --- Dissenter, --- Lessons for children, Author of, --- Volunteer, --- 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, --- Edgeworth, --- Author of Practical education, --- Practical education, Author of, --- Author of Letters for literary ladies, --- Letters for literary ladies, Author of, --- Edgeworth, Eliza,

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An engaging account of how Jane Austen became a household name. Just how did Jane Austen become the celebrity author and the inspiration for generations of loyal fans she is today? Devoney Looser's The Making of Jane Austenturns to the people, performances, activism, and images that fostered Austen's early fame, laying the groundwork for the beloved author we think we know. Here are the Austen influencers, including her first English illustrator, the eccentric Ferdinand Pickering, whose sensational gothic images may be better understood through his brushes with bullying, bigamy, and an attempted matricide. The daring director-actress Rosina Filippi shaped Austen's reputation with her pioneering dramatizations, leading thousands of young women to ventriloquize Elizabeth Bennet's audacious lines before drawing room audiences. Even the supposedly staid history of Austen scholarship has its bizarre stories. The author of the first Jane Austen dissertation, student George Pellew, tragically died young, but he was believed by many, including his professor-mentor, to have come back from the dead. Looser shows how these figures and their Austen-inspired work transformed Austen's reputation, just as she profoundly shaped theirs. Through them, Looser describes the factors and influences that radically altered Austen's evolving image. Drawing from unexplored material, Looser examines how echoes of that work reverberate in our explanations of Austen's literary and cultural power. Whether you're a devoted Janeite or simply Jane-curious, The Making of Jane Austenwill have you thinking about how a literary icon is made, transformed, and handed down from generation to generation.--

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. --- English literature --- Austen, Jane, --- Social aspects. --- Appreciation --- History. --- Criticism and interpretation --- Adaptations --- History and criticism. --- Influence. --- Literary criticism --- Social science --- Art appreciation. --- Influence (literary, artistic, etc.). --- Literature --- Rezeption. --- European --- English, irish, scottish, welsh. --- Popular culture. --- Adaptations.

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The Romantic period saw the first generations of professional women writers flourish in Great Britain. Literary history is only now giving them the attention they deserve, for the quality of their writings and for their popularity in their own time. This collection of new essays by leading scholars explores the challenges and achievements of this fascinating set of women writers, including Jane Austen, Mary Wollstonecraft, Ann Radcliffe, Hannah More, Maria Edgeworth, and Mary Shelley alongside many lesser-known female authors writing and publishing during this period. Chapters consider major literary genres, including poetry, fiction, drama, travel writing, histories, essays, and political writing, as well as topics such as globalization, colonialism, feminism, economics, families, sexualities, aging, and war. The volume shows how gender intersected with other aspects of identity and with cultural concerns that then shaped the work of authors, critics, and readers.

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

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Age group sociology --- Thematology --- Sociology of literature --- Age --- Seniors --- Literary criticism --- Writers --- Book --- Piozzi, Hester Lynch --- Porter, Jane --- Macaulay, Catharine --- Austen, Jane --- Barbauld, Anna Laetitia Aikin --- Burney, Fanny --- Edgeworth, Maria --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- Great Britain

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