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Becoming a woman of letters : myths of authorship and facts of the Victorian market /

'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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Peterson, Linda H.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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-siècle Englishwoman of letters
  • The woman of letters and the new woman : reinventing Mary Cholmondeley.