Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750-1850 Danah Zohar Sylvia Chant

Sylvia Chant

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Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750-1850 Danah Zohar Sylvia ChantThis groundbreaking study explores the later lives and late life writings of more than two dozen British women authors active during the long eighteenth century. Drawing on biographical materials, literary texts, and reception histories, Devoney Looser finds that far from fading into moribund old age, female literary greats such as Anna Letitia Barbauld, Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Catharine Macaulay, Hester Lynch Piozzi, and Jane Porter toiled