Women, Authorship and Literary Culture 1690 - 1740

SARAH PRESCOTT is a Lecturer in English at the University of Wales. She is the author of several articles on early eighteenth-century women's writing and has co-edited a collection of essays, Women and Poetry, 1660-1750, also available from Palgrave Macmillan.

• Introduction: Relocating Women's Literary History PART I: WOMEN AND AUTHORSHIP Authorship for Women: Careers and Contexts Negotiating Authorship: Self-Representations PART II: AUTHORSHIP AND ECONOMICS Marketing the Woman Writer: Commercial Strategies Making a Living: Booksellers, Patronage, and Subscription PART III: THE LITERARY CAREER OF ELIZABETH SINGER ROWE Authorship, Gender, and Whig Poetics Provincial Networks, Dissenting Connections, and Noble Friends Bibliography Index