American Women Authors and Literary Property, 1822-1869

Through an exploration of women authors'' engagements with copyright and married women''s property laws, American Women Authors and Literary Property, 1822–1869, revises nineteenth-century American literary history, making women''s authorship and copyright law central. Using case studies of five popular fiction writers - Catharine Sedgwick, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Fanny Fern, Augusta Evans, and Mar...