Becoming a Woman of Letters

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400833256
Total Pages : 316 pages
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Book Synopsis Becoming a Woman of Letters by : Linda H. Peterson

Download or read book Becoming a Woman of Letters written by Linda H. Peterson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the nineteenth century, women authors for the first time achieved professional status, secure income, and public fame. How did these women enter the literary profession; meet the demands of editors, publishers, booksellers, and reviewers; and achieve distinction as "women of letters"? Becoming a Woman of Letters examines the various ways women writers negotiated the market realities of authorship, and looks at the myths and models women writers constructed to elevate their place in the profession. Drawing from letters, contracts, and other archival material, Linda Peterson details the careers of various women authors from the Victorian period. Some, like Harriet Martineau, adopted the practices of their male counterparts and wrote for periodicals before producing a best seller; others, like Mary Howitt and Alice Meynell, began in literary partnerships with their husbands and pursued independent careers later in life; and yet others, like Charlotte Brontë, and her successors Charlotte Riddell and Mary Cholmondeley, wrote from obscure parsonages or isolated villages, hoping an acclaimed novel might spark a meteoric rise to fame. Peterson considers these women authors' successes and failures--the critical esteem that led to financial rewards and lasting reputations, as well as the initial successes undermined by publishing trends and pressures. Exploring the burgeoning print culture and the rise of new genres available to Victorian women authors, this book provides a comprehensive account of the flowering of literary professionalism in the nineteenth century.

The Letters of Mrs. Gaskell

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Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781901341034
Total Pages : 1058 pages
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Book Synopsis The Letters of Mrs. Gaskell by : Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Download or read book The Letters of Mrs. Gaskell written by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 1058 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These letters, covering such subjects as scarlet fever, the Lancashire cotton famine and the American Civil War, bring history alive. They also throw light on Gaskell's own writings, especially her biography of Charlotte Brontèe.

Anna Jameson Letters and Friendships (1812-1860)

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
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Further Letters of Mrs. Gaskell

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Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719067716
Total Pages : 362 pages
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Book Synopsis Further Letters of Mrs. Gaskell by : John Chapple

Download or read book Further Letters of Mrs. Gaskell written by John Chapple and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reputation of Elizabeth Gaskell is undergoing a renaissance as we enter the new millennium. The variety of her work and the range of her acquaintance makes her one of the most interesting literary figures of her century. This new collection of her letters illustrates the richness and diversity of her involvement in a remarkable range of social and literary activities. Out of the 270 letters included in this volume only 40 have been previously published.

Location Register of English Literary Manuscripts and Letters, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A-J

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Total Pages : 544 pages
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Mrs. Gaskell's Observation and Invention

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Total Pages : 742 pages
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Book Synopsis Mrs. Gaskell's Observation and Invention by : John Geoffrey Sharps

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The Cambridge Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139827499
Total Pages : 192 pages
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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell by : Jill L. Matus

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell written by Jill L. Matus and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-02-22 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last few decades Elizabeth Gaskell has become a figure of growing importance in the field of Victorian literary studies. She produced work of great variety and scope in the course of a highly successful writing career that lasted for about twenty years from the mid-1840s to her unexpected death in 1865. The essays in this Companion draw on recent advances in biographical and bibliographical studies of Gaskell and cover the range of her impressive and varied output as a writer of novels, biography, short stories, and letters. The volume, which features well-known scholars in the field of Gaskell studies, focuses throughout on her narrative versatility and her literary responses to the social, cultural, and intellectual transformations of her time. This Companion will be invaluable for students and scholars of Victorian literature, and includes a chronology and guide to further reading.

Anna Jameson

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351958240
Total Pages : 423 pages
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Book Synopsis Anna Jameson by : Judith Johnston

Download or read book Anna Jameson written by Judith Johnston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anna Brownwell Jameson (1794-1869) was a central figure in the London world of letters and art in the early Victorian period, and an important feminist writer. Her friends included such figures as Harriet Martineau, Lady Byron, Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. This study considers her life and works, using a different Jameson work as the central focus of each chapter. The author considers the particular non-fiction discourse in which the work is written, as well as such issues as gender and colonialism. Arranged chronologically, the book also charts the growth and development of a determined feminism in the vital years of the early Victorian period, and compares Jameson to her contemporaries.

Elizabeth Gaskell, Her Life and Work

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
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Book Synopsis Elizabeth Gaskell, Her Life and Work by : Annette Brown Hopkins

Download or read book Elizabeth Gaskell, Her Life and Work written by Annette Brown Hopkins and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1878–1880

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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803254245
Total Pages : 417 pages
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Download or read book The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1878–1880 written by Henry James and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing letters written between October 3, 1878, and August 30, 1879, this volume of The Complete Letters of Henry James reveals Henry James establishing control of his writing career and finding confidence in himself not only as a professional author on both sides of the Atlantic but also as an important social figure in London. In this volume of 114 letters, of which 58 are published for the first time, we see James learning to negotiate, pitting one publisher against another, and working to secure simultaneous publication in the United States and England. He establishes a working relationship with Frederick Macmillan and with the Macmillan publishing house, cultivates reviewers, basks in the success—and notoriety—of his novella Daisy Miller, and visits Alfred Tennyson and George Eliot, among others. James also produces essays on political subjects and continues to publish reviews and travel essays. Perhaps most important, James negotiates terms for and begins planning The Portrait of a Lady.

Athenaeum

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 914 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Elizabeth Gaskell

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
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Book Synopsis Elizabeth Gaskell by : Robert L. Selig

Download or read book Elizabeth Gaskell written by Robert L. Selig and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Nation

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Total Pages : 1128 pages
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Elizabeth Gaskell

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317229339
Total Pages : 293 pages
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Book Synopsis Elizabeth Gaskell by : Angus Easson

Download or read book Elizabeth Gaskell written by Angus Easson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1979, this book looks at every aspect of the life and work of Elizabeth Gaskell, including her lesser known novels and writings — especially those concerning life in the industrial north of Victorian England. It shows how her work springs from a culture and society which pervades all she thought and wrote. An opening chapter explores her religion, culture, friendships and family. The major works are considered in turn and background material relevant to the novels’ industrial scenes is presented. The process of literary creation is charted in material drawn from letters and by examination of the manuscripts. Her short stories, journalism and letters are also considered.

An Elizabeth Gaskell Chronology

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230596835
Total Pages : 273 pages
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Book Synopsis An Elizabeth Gaskell Chronology by : G. Handley

Download or read book An Elizabeth Gaskell Chronology written by G. Handley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-12-10 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This chronology will set Elizabeth Gaskell in her historical, social and literary contexts. It will focus on her career as a writer but will also underline her interactive roles as wife, mother, practical and tolerant Christian, radical sympathizer. Graham Handley discusses her early life, her marriage, the beginnings of her writing, the years of achievement, her social, humanitarian concerns, love of travel and its influence, with the balance of domesticity and creativity which is the key to her character.

Elizabeth Gaskell

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Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253301031
Total Pages : 248 pages
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Book Synopsis Elizabeth Gaskell by : Patsy Stoneman

Download or read book Elizabeth Gaskell written by Patsy Stoneman and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Patsy Stoneman's Elizabeth Gaskell first appeared in 1987, it was welcomed as 'the first major full-length feminist study of Gaskell' (Victorian Studies). Though long out of print, it is still widely used and cited in university contexts, making it certain that this augmented edition will be equally welcome. This pioneering study, described as 'a model of feminist criticism' (The Year's Work in English Studies), reveals Gaskell as an important social analyst who deliberately challenged the Victorian disjunction between public and private ethical values, maintaining a steady resistance to aggressive authority and advocating female friendship, rational motherhood and the power of speech as forces for social change. Since 1987, Gaskell's work has risen from minor to major status. Despite a wealth of subsequent gender-oriented criticism, however, Stoneman's 'combination of psychoanalytic and political analysis', which Choice found 'thought-provoking' in 1987, remains challenging in its use of modern motherhood theories. This new edition, therefore, presents the original text unchanged (except for bibliographical updating) together with a new critical Afterword. Patsy Stoneman's extensive new Afterword offers detailed evaluation of all the Gaskell criticism published between 1985 and 2004 which has a bearing on her subject, and thus provides both a wide-ranging debate on the social implications of motherhood, and an invaluable survey of Gaskell criticism over the last twenty years. This edition, with an updated bibliography and index, will bring a well-known classic to a new audience, while also offering a uniquely comprehensive overview of current Gaskell studies. Book jacket.

The Mediterranean Passion

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Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571310257
Total Pages : 287 pages
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Download or read book The Mediterranean Passion written by John Pemble and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The only remarkable thing people can tell of their doings these days is that they have stayed at home', declared George Eliot in 1869. In Victorian and Edwardian Britain travel became the rage. The middle classes and the aristocracy seemed in a constant flux of arrival and departure, their luggage festooned with foreign labels. The revolution in transport made this possible. The Mediterranean Passion describes how the British travelled to the South and where they went. Drawing on what these travellers wrote, and what was written for them, it enriches our understanding of the Victorians and Edwardians by exploring the medical, religious, sexual and aesthetic dimensions of their journeys and illuminates an important but neglected aspect of British social and cultural history. '... combines scholarship with charm ... It could easily be taken to the Mediterranean on a holiday and read with pleasure on a sunny beach or in the shade of a church.' Asa Briggs, Financial Times 'I was impressed not merely by the range of his erudition - historical, cultural, literary, topographical, medical et al. - and by the depth of his enquiries into his subject but by the subtlety and refinement of his prose. He deals with very elusive, complex and culturally contradictory matters, upon which few, if any, could arrive at persuasive generalisations; yet he does so throughout the book, while his conclusion is a marvel of judgment, excelling even what his preceded.' David Selbourne (author of The Principle of Duty) The Mediterranean Passion was the joint winner of the 1987 Wolfson Literary Award for History.