Research Catalog

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Description

1. 320 pages; 21 cm

Summary

1. "Keynote Jane Austen and the Brontës endure as the leading ladies of English literature, but why are these reclusive parsons' daughters the only ones we remember? Funny and fascinating, Shelley DeWees's nonfiction debut, Not Just Jane, revisits British history through the extraordinary lives and work of seven long-forgotten authoresses--and wonders why they, and so many others, faded into obscurity (and what we are missing because of it)"--

Alternative title

1. Women writers who transformed British literature

Subject

1. Women authors, English -- Biography.
2. English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
3. Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History.
4. English fiction -- History and criticism.
5. Smith, Charlotte, 1749-1806.
6. Williams, Helen Maria, 1762-1827.
7. Robinson, Mary, 1758-1800.
8. Crowe, Catherine, 1790-1876.
9. Coleridge, Sara Coleridge, 1802-1852.
10. Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock, 1826-1887.
11. Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth), 1835-1915.

Genre/Form

1. Biographies
2. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
3. History
4. History.
5. Biographies.

Contents

1. Introduction -- Charlotte Turner Smith (1749-1806) -- Helen Maria Williams (1759-1827) -- Mary Robinson (1758-1800) -- Catherine Crowe (c. 1800-1876) -- Sara Coleridge (1802-1852) -- Dinah Mulock Craik (1826-1887) -- Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915) -- Afterword.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Language

1. English

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages [285]-289).

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain