Women Writers and Their Publishers

Michelle Levy is Professor of English at Simon Fraser University. She is the author of two monographs, Family Authorship and Romantic Print Culture (2008) and Literary Manuscript Culture in Romantic Britain (2020), co-author with Betty A. Schellenberg of the Cambridge Element How and Why to do things with Eighteenth-Century Manuscripts (2021), author of two text books, The Broadview Reader in Book History (2015) and The Broadview Introduction to Book History (2017), editor of Dorothy Wordsworth's Lake District (2024), and, with Anne K. Mellor, co-editor of Lucy Aikin's Epistles on Women and other Works (2010). She also directs The Women's Print History Project, a publicly available database that collects detailed information, at the edition level, on women's books for the long eighteenth century.

• Introduction: From Women's Literary History to Women's Book History; 1. Finding Women in Publishers' Archives; 2. Women Corresponding with Cadell & Davies; 3. John Murray's Pursuit of Women of Letters; 4. Women Writers Selling Copyright to Longman and Bentley; 5. Women Writers Sharing Profits with Longman and Bentley; 6. Marketing Women's Books: Title Pages, Advertisements, Catalogues, Prefaces; 7. Reselling Women's Writing: Works, Collections, Anthologies, Series; Coda; Notes; Bibliography.