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Author:

Peterson, Linda H.

Title:

Becoming a woman of letters : myths of authorship and facts of the Victorian market / Linda H. Peterson.

Publisher:

Princeton University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

xv, 289 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Women and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Authors and publishers--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Literature publishing--History--Great Britain--History--19th century.
English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Authorship--Economic aspects--Great Britain.
Books and reading--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Literature and society--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Printing--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

0691140170 (cl : alk. paper)
9780691140179 (cl : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)244481660

LCCN:

2008036302

Locations:

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

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)