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Author Spender, Dale.

Title Mothers of the novel : 100 good women writers before Jane Austen / Dale Spender
Published London ; New York : Pandora, 1986

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Description x, 357 pages : portraits ; 23 cm
Contents Fact and fiction: Lady Mary Wroath and Anne Weamys -- Publish and be damned .. as a woman: Katherine Philips -- Biographical beginnings: Anne Cllifford, Lucy Hutchinson, Anne Fanshawe, Margaret Cavendish -- 'The fair triumvirate of wits': Aphra Behn, Delariviere Manley, Eliza Haywood -- Gross deception: 100 women novelists -- Power and progaganda -- The myth of the isolated achievement -- Male romance -- Women's view: women critics -- Sarah Fielding and misrepresentation -- Charlotte Lennox and North America -- Elizabeth Inchbald and independence -- Charlotte Smith and real life -- Ann Radcliffe and the Gothic -- Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Hays and autobiographical fiction -- Fanny Burney, Maria Edgeworth and the height of achievement -- Lady Morgan and political fiction -- Amelia Opie and the novel of ideas -- Mary Brunton: premature death and a rich bequest
Summary Lady Mary Wroath - Anne Weamys - Katherine Philips - Eliza Haywood - Sarah Fielding - Charlotte Lennox - Elizabeth Inchbald - Ann Radcliffe- Mary Wollstonecraft - Fanny Burney - Maria Edgeworth - Amelia Opie - Mary Brunton
Analysis Fiction in English Women writers, 1625-1837 - Critical studies
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 339-347
Notes Donation. Colin Steele 20120212 Brissenden collection, ANU Library
Signed by author 1 copy. ANU
Subject English fiction -- History and criticism.
English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
English fiction -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History.
Women authors -- History and criticism.
Women authors, English.
LC no. 85028377
ISBN 0863580815
0863582516 (paperback)