The Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in Britain, 1660-1789

Catherine Ingrassia is Professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is the author of Authorship, Commerce, and Gender in Eighteenth-Century England: A Culture of Paper Credit (Cambridge, 1998); editor of a critical edition of Eliza Haywood's Anti-Pamela and Henry Fielding's Shamela (2004); and co-editor of A Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel and Culture (2005) and the anthology British Women Poets of the Long Eighteenth Century (2009).

• Introduction Catherine Ingrassia; Part I. Women in Print Culture: 1. Women as readers and writers Mark Towsey; 2. The professional female writer Betty Schellenberg; 3. Place and publication Sarah Prescott; 4. Women and popular culture Paula R. Backscheider; 5. Genre crossings Kathryn R. King; Part II. Genres, Modes, and Forms: 6. Poetry David Shuttleton; 7. Drama Felicity Nussbaum; 8. History Rivka Swenson; 9. Satire Melinda A. Rabb; 10. Early fiction Nicola Parsons; 11. Later fiction Katherine Binhammer; 12. Travel writing Harriet Guest; 13. Ballads Ruth Perry; 14. Periodical writing Mary Waters; Guide to further reading.

'Ingrassia's introduction provides an extremely valuable overview … and the guide to further reading at the end of the volume is also particularly strong.' Jenny Davidson, Studies in English Literature