Becoming a Woman of Letters: Myths of Authorship and Facts of the Victorian Market

by LindaH.Peterson (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  2009

  $55.28

  During the nineteenth century, women authors for the first time achieved professional status, secure income, and public fame. This book examines the various ways women writers negotiated the market realities of authorship, and looks at the myths and models women writers constructed to elevate their place in the profession.