These new essays by leading scholars explore nineteenth-century women's writing across a spectrum of genres. The book's focus is on women's role in and access t

This book, first published in 2000, is an authoritative volume of new essays on women's writing and reading in the eighteenth century.

This volume charts the rise of professional women writers across diverse fields of intellectual enquiry and through different modes of writing in the period imm

Presents 35 thematically organised, research-led essays on women, periodicals and print culture in Victorian Britain.

This study examines literary celebrity in Britain from 1850 to 1914 with chapters focused on a variety of Victorian authors, including Charles Dickens, Harriet