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Biographical Misrepresentations of British Women Writers

Author: Brenda Ayres

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-11-08

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 3319567500

This book is an investigation of the biases, contradictions, errors, ambiguities, gaps, and historical contexts in biographies of controversial British women who published during the long nineteenth century, many of them left unchecked and perpetuated from publication to publication. Fourteen scholars analyze the agenda, problems, and strengths of biographical material, highlighting the flaws, deficiencies, and influences that have distorted the portraits of women such as Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Hays, Sydney Owenson, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Felicia Hemans, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Caroline Norton, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Brontë, Lady Florence Dixie, George Eliot, and Edith Simcox. Through exposing distortions, this fascinating study demonstrates that biographies are often more about the biographer than they are about the biographee and that they are products of the time in which they are written.

British Women Writers

Author: Janet M. Todd

Publisher: Burns & Oates

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 792

ISBN-13:

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"A welcome and necessary addition to the reference shelf". -- Washington Post Book World

An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers

Author: Paul Schlueter

Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 741

ISBN-13: 9780813525426

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This broad examination of women writers identified with Great Britain builds on its predecessor's strengths, with fifty percent new material as well as completely updated entries. Over 600 writers are discussed in terms of their biographies, with precise details where these could be ascertained and in some cases correcting biographies in other reference works, as well as thematic issues and critical reception. Each entry includes a definitive bibliography of primary works and thorough secondary bibliographies (including book-length studies, reference works, major essays and reviews) to lead readers to other sources. Available in paperback for the first time, this book is an ideal desk reference for scholar and student alike.

An Encyclopedia of British Women's Writing 1900-1950

Author: Faye Hammill

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2005-11-29

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9781403916921

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This unique reference work provides a comprehensive and wide-ranging resource which includes information on many previously neglected British women writers and topics. As well as detailed entries on women writing across a whole range of genres, it provides contextualizing material, with concise introductions to related topics, including organizations, movements, genres and publications, as well as literary and historical events. An integral timeline provides a framework for the entries, and a thorough, annotated bibliography of relevant critical material is an invaluable point of reference.

Encyclopedia of British Women Writers

Author: June Schlueter

Publisher: Garland Science

Published: 2004-11

Total Pages: 700

ISBN-13: 9780815319450

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Novel Histories

Author: Lisa Kasmer

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 1611474957

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Novel Histories: British Women Writing History, 1760-1830 explores issues of historical and literary genres, historiography, and the gendering of civic and literary roles. It demonstrates the new and sometimes subversive ways that women authors pushed the limits of writing history in order to participate in contemporary national civic life otherwise closed to them.

Living by the Pen

Author: Dale Spender

Publisher: New York : Teachers College Press

Published: 1992-01-01

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780807762608

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Living by the pen reclaims the literary heritage of early British women writers from the predominantly male tradition. Written by researchers and writers in the area, this work aims to provide accessible and useful background material on the women, the writing, and the period. The book is divided into three sections: the women; the issues, including violence against women in these early texts and the women's authority as writers; and the creative and professional achievements of these women.

Dictionary of British Women Writers

Author: Janet M. Todd

Publisher:

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 792

ISBN-13:

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Nearly 450 entries cover major and minor British women writers from the Middle Ages to the present day. Each entry gives biographical details and a discussion of key works and themes. Critical references are also included.

Romantic women's life writing

Author: Susan Civale

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2019-03-14

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 1526101289

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This book explores how the publication of women’s life writing influenced the reputation of its writers and of the genre itself during the long nineteenth century. It provides case studies of Frances Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Robinson and Mary Hays, four writers whose names were caught up in debates about the moral and literary respectability of publishing the ‘private’. Focusing on gender, genre and authorship, this study examines key works of life writing by and about these women, and the reception of these texts. It argues for the importance of life writing—a crucial site of affective and imaginative identification—in shaping authorial reputation and afterlife. The book ultimately constructs a fuller picture of the literary field in the long nineteenth century and the role of women writers and their life writing within it.