The rise of the woman novelist

By Jane Spencer

Subjects: Women authors, English fiction, English fiction, history and criticism, 18th century, Women in literature, English fiction, history and criticism, 19th century, History and criticism, Feminism and literature, History, Women and literature

Description: "Feminist studies of women's writing have tended to concentrate on writers of the 19th and 20th centuries. This book, which examines women novelists from Aphra Behn to Fanny Burney, is intended to redress the balance and to argue for the crucial importance of the 18th century to developing female identities in literature. The scope of the book is wide, with references ranging from Sarah Fielding, Ann Radcliffe and Mary Wollstonecraft to Jane Austen."--amazon.ca desc.