Nobody's Story

Nobody's Story is a ground-breaking exploration of the careers of five influential women writers of the Restoration and eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Through detailed discussion of the lives and work of Aphra Behn (1640-1689), Delarivier Manley (1663-1724), Charlotte Lennox (1729-1804), Frances Burney (1752-1840), and Maria Edgeworth (1768?-1849), Catherine Gallagher reveals the underlying connections between the increasing prestige of female authorship, the economy and debt, and the rise of the novel.