Publishing the Woman Writer in England, 1670-1750

In the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the ''woman writer'' emerged as a category of authorship in England. Publishing the Woman Writer in England, 1670-1750 seeks to uncover how exactly this happened and the ways publishers tried to market a new kind of author to the public. Based on a survey of nearly seven hundred works with female authors from this period, this book contends that au...