Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Introduction
- 1 The construction of the woman writer
- 2 Remaking the canon
- 3 Women and the consumption of print
- 4 Women writing woman: nineteenth-century representations of gender and sexuality
- 5 Feminism, journalism and public debate
- 6 Women's writing and the domestic sphere
- 7 Women, fiction and the marketplace
- 8 Women poets and the challenge of genre
- 9 Women and the theatre
- 10 Women writers and self-writing
- 11 The professionalization of women's writing: extending the canon
- 12 Women writers and religion
- 13 Women writing for children
- Guide to further reading
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Introduction
- 1 The construction of the woman writer
- 2 Remaking the canon
- 3 Women and the consumption of print
- 4 Women writing woman: nineteenth-century representations of gender and sexuality
- 5 Feminism, journalism and public debate
- 6 Women's writing and the domestic sphere
- 7 Women, fiction and the marketplace
- 8 Women poets and the challenge of genre
- 9 Women and the theatre
- 10 Women writers and self-writing
- 11 The professionalization of women's writing: extending the canon
- 12 Women writers and religion
- 13 Women writing for children
- Guide to further reading
- Index
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- Chapter
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- Women and Literature in Britain 1800–1900 , pp. i - ivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001