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Author:

DeWees, Shelley, author.

Title:

Not just Jane : rediscovering seven amazing women writers who transformed British literature / Shelley DeWees.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Harper Perennial,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

320 pages ; 21 cm

Subject:

Women authors, English--Biography.
English literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Women and literature--Great Britain--History.
English fiction--History and criticism.
English fiction.
English literature--Women authors.
Women and literature.
Women authors, English.
Great Britain.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Women.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Literary.
HISTORY--Europe--Great Britain.
Biography.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-320).

Contents:

Introduction -- Charlotte Turner Smith (1749-1806) -- Helen Maria Williams (1759-1827) -- Mary Robinson (1758-1800) -- Catherine Crowe (c. 1800-1876) -- Sara Coleridge (1802-1852) -- Dinah Mulock Craik (1826-1887) -- Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915) -- Afterword.

Summary:

"Keynote Jane Austen and the Bronte˜s endure as the leading ladies of English literature, but why are these reclusive parsons' daughters the only ones we remember? Funny and fascinating, Shelley DeWees's nonfiction debut, Not Just Jane, revisits British history through the extraordinary lives and work of seven long-forgotten authoresses--and wonders why they, and so many others, faded into obscurity (and what we are missing because of it)"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0062394622
9780062394620

OCLC:

(OCoLC)943668917

LCCN:

2016001019

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

GUPF501 -- Newton Public Library (Newton)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)