Becoming a Writer: Myths and Facts of the Victorian Book Market
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The 19th century was a century of rapid development of printed culture and professionalization of writing. What role did women authors play in this process? Contrary to persistent stereotypes about the Victorian era, where women were supposedly relegated to the role of keepers of the hearth, providing male writers with a reliable rear, Linda Peterson’s book proves that women writers were full-fledged actors in the book market: with their literary work, they managed to win fame, a stable income, and often a position in society. The main focus of the monograph is on how Victorian women writers, creating and publishing their works, shaped the image of a writing woman, thereby building the trajectories of a literary path. Peterson turns to the authorial strategies of Harriet Martineau, Mary Howitt, Elizabeth Gaskell (and through her, Charlotte Brontë), Alice Meynell, Charlotte Riddell and Mary Cholmondeley. The creative biographies of these women span the period from the 1830s to the early 20th century, showing how attitudes toward female writers changed and how they themselves redefined the concept of “being a woman author.” Linda Peterson (1948–2015) was a literary historian, Victorian scholar, and professor at Yale University.
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