Women and Literature in Britain 1800-1900

These new essays by leading scholars explore nineteenth-century women''s writing across a spectrum of genres. The book''s focus is on women''s role in and access to literary culture in the broadest sense as consumers and interpreters as well as practitioners of that culture. Individual chapters consider women as journalists editors translators scholars actresses playwrights autobiographers biographers writers for children and religious writers as well as novelists and poets. A unique chronology offers a woman-centered perspective on literary and historical events and there is a guide to further reading.