Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Diary of a not-so-mad housewife; Jack and The Fair Jilt: the value of Aphra Behn; Birds of a different feather: going toe-to-toe with Defoe; He said/she said: from the picaresque to the pointedly personal; Notes; References; Index
Summary
In the early eighteenth century, the household accountant was traditionally female. Socio-linguistic acts of feminized accounting are examined alongside property, originality, and the development of the early novel
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-205) and index
