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Women, Authorship and Literary Culture 1690 - 1740

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  • © 2003

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Authors:
  1. Sarah Prescott

    1. University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: Relocating Women’s Literary History

    1. Introduction: Relocating Women’s Literary History

      • Sarah Prescott
      Pages 1-12

  3. Women and Authorship

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. Authorship for Women: Careers and Contexts

      • Sarah Prescott
      Pages 15-38

    3. Negotiating Authorship: Women’s Self-Representations

      • Sarah Prescott
      Pages 39-66

  4. Authorship and Economics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67
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    2. Marketing the Woman Writer: Commercial Strategies

      • Sarah Prescott
      Pages 69-102

    3. Making a Living: Booksellers, Patronage and Subscription

      • Sarah Prescott
      Pages 103-138

  5. The Literary Career of Elizabeth Singer Rowe

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139
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    2. Gender, Authorship and Whig Poetics

      • Sarah Prescott
      Pages 141-166

    3. Provincial Networks, Dissenting Connections and Noble Friends

      • Sarah Prescott
      Pages 167-186

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 187-237
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About this book

Sarah Prescott discusses the careers of a number of key women writers of the period from 1690 to 1740, exploring the role played by geographical location, literary circles, patronage, the literary marketplace, and subscription publication in shaping patterns of female authorship. The volume also provides a wealth of detail about the circumstances which affected the careers of individual women as well as investigating the marketing, reception, and self-representation of women writers in general.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK

    Sarah Prescott

About the author

SARAH PRESCOTT is a Lecturer in English at the University of Wales. She is the author of several articles on early eighteenth-century women's writing and has co-edited a collection of essays, Women and Poetry, 1660-1750, also available from Palgrave Macmillan.

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