In the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the 'woman writer' emerged as a category of authorship in England. Publishing the Woman Writer in England, 167

In the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the 'woman writer' emerged as a category of authorship in England. Publishing the Woman Writer in England, 167

This groundbreaking study explores the later lives and late-life writings of more than two dozen British women authors active during the long eighteenth century

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