Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750-1850

• Main Author: Looser, Devoney (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Johns Hopkins University Press 2008
• Subjects: Gender studies, gender groups
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This 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...