Women's Writing, 1660-1830

Chapter 1 Preface: Writing and Reading the ‘Rugged Realities of Life’

Chapter 2 Introduction: Feminisms and Futures: Women’s Writing 1660–1830

Chapter 3 Passing Judgement: The Place of the Aesthetic in Feminist Literary History

Chapter 4 Free Market Feminism? The Political Economy of Women’s Writing

Chapter 5 Feminist Literary History: How Do We Know We’ve Won?

Chapter 6 Anon, Pseud and ‘By a Lady’: The Spectre of Anonymity in Women’s Literary History

Chapter 7 Authorial Performances: Actress, Author, Critic

Chapter 8 Pay, Professionalization and Probable Dominance? Women Writers and the Children’s Book Trade

Chapter 9 ‘There Are Numbers of Very Choice Books’*: Book Ownership and the Circulation of Women’s Texts, 1680–98

Chapter 11 Archipelagic Literary History: Eighteenth-Century Poetry from Ireland, Scotland and Wales

Chapter 12 The ‘Biographical Impulse’ and Pan-European Women’s Writing