Introduction: invisible girls -- 1. A woman's profession: sexual difference and the romance of authorship -- 2. The writer's ravishment: Byron's body politics -- 3. Classifying romanticism: the milliner girl and the magazines -- 4. Disfiguring economics: Mary Shelley's gift-book stories -- 5. The author's progress: William Hazlitt's Keswick escapade and Sarah Hazlitt's Journal -- 6. Romanticism in the drawing room: Austen's interiority
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-185) and index