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BL
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587989
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GB8702878b417208
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| Main Entry
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Spender, Dale
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| Title & Author
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Mothers of the novel : : 100 good women writers before Jane Austen /\ Dale Spender
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x, 357 pages :: portraits ;; 23 cm
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| ISBN
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0863580815
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: 9780863580819
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: 0863582516
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: 9780863582516
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-347) and index
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| Contents
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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
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| Abstract
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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
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English fiction-- Women authors-- History and criticism
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English fiction-- 18th century-- History and criticism
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English fiction-- Early modern, 1500-1700-- History and criticism
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Women and literature-- Great Britain-- History
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Roman anglais - 16e siècle - Histoire et critique
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Roman anglais - 18e siècle - Histoire et critique
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Écrits de femmes anglais - Histoire et critique
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| Dewey Classification
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823/.009/9287
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| LC Classification
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PR113.S63 1986
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