Women, Authorship and Literary Culture, 1690-1740 - Hardcover

by S. Prescott (Author)

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.

Author Biography

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.