Women Writing about Money : Women's Fiction in England, 1790-1820 Paperback / softback
by Edward (Pomona College, California) Copeland
Part of the Cambridge Studies in Romanticism series
Paperback / softback
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This study addresses a paradox in the lives of women in Jane Austen's time who had no legal access to money yet were held responsible for domestic expenditure.
The book translates the fictional money of the novels of Jane Austen's day into the power of contemporary spendable incomes, and from the perspective of what the British pound could buy at the market, the economic lives of women in the novels emerge as part of a general picture of women's economic disability.
Through the work of writers such as Austen and Edgeworth, as well as those of magazine fiction, the author examines the professional lives of women authors, their publishers, their profits, and the demands of their reading public.
By linking authorship to the economic lives of contemporary women, Women Writing About Money links the fantasy worlds of women's fiction with the social and economic realities of both readers and writers.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:312 pages, 28 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:02/12/2004
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- ISBN:9780521616164
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:312 pages, 28 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:02/12/2004
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521616164
