Becoming a woman of letters : Victorian myths of authorship, facts of the market

Publication Data

• Title Becoming a woman of letters : Victorian myths of authorship, facts of the market
• Author Linda H. Peterson
• Publisher Princeton University Press
• Publication date 2009
• Publication location Princeton, N.J.
• Language English

Contents

Introduction: the 19th-century profession of letters and the woman author
Inventing the woman of letters: Harriet Martineau in the literary
Marketplace of the 1820's and 30's
Working collaboratively: Mary Howitt and Anna Mary Howitt as women of letters
Parallel currents: the life of Charlotte Bronte as mid-victorian
Myth of women's authorship
Challenging Brontean myths of authorship: Charlotte Riddell and a struggle for fame (1883)
Transforming the poet: Alice Meynell as fin-de-siecle
Englishwoman of letters
The woman of letters and the new woman: reinventing Mary Cholmondeley.

Topics

• English literature :: Women authors :: History and criticism
• Women and literature :: Great Britain :: History :: 19th century
• Authors and publishers :: Great Britain :: History :: 19th century
• Literature publishing :: Economic aspects :: 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
• 015118300

Becoming a woman of letters : Victorian myths of authorship, facts of the market by Linda H. Peterson. ISBN 9780691140179. Published by Princeton University Press in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.