Drawing on three decades of feminist scholarship bent on rediscovering lost and abandoned women writers, Susan Staves provides a comprehensive history of women'

Women writers played a central role in the literature and culture of eighteenth-century Britain. Featuring essays on female writers and genres by leading schola

The Professionalisation of Women Writers in Eighteenth Century Britain is a full study of a group of women who were actively and ambitiously engaged in a range

In the past twenty years our understanding of the novel's emergence in eighteenth-century Britain has drastically changed. Drawing on new research in social and

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