Becoming a Woman of Letters : : Myths of Authorship and Facts of the Victorian Market / / Linda H. Peterson.

• VerfasserIn: Peterson, Linda H.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.) :; 28 halftones.

During the nineteenth century, women authors for the first time achieved professional status, secure income, and public fame. How did these women enter the literary profession; meet the demands of editors, publishers, booksellers, and reviewers; and achieve distinction as "women of letters"...

Table of Contents

• Contents
• List of illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY PROFESSION OF LETTERS AND THE WOMAN AUTHOR
• 2 INVENTING THE WOMAN OF LETTERS Harriet Martineau in the Literary Marketplace of the 1820s and 1830s
• 3 WORKING COLLABORATIVELY Mary Howitt and Anna Mary Howitt as Women of Letters
• 4 PARALLEL CURRENTS The Life of Charlotte Bronte¨ as Mid-Victorian Myth of Women's Authorship
• 5 CHALLENGING BRONTE¨ AN MYTHS OF AUTHORSHIP Charlotte Riddell and A Struggle for Fame (1883)
• 6 TRANSFORMING THE POET Alice Meynell as Fin-de-Siécle Englishwoman of Letters
• 7 THE WOMAN OF LETTERS AND THE NEW WOMAN Reinventing Mary Cholmondeley
• Notes
• Index