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Author Coultrap-McQuin, Susan Margaret

Title Doing literary business : American women writers in the nineteenth century / Susan Coultrap-McQuin
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1990

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 253 pages) : illustrations
Series Gender & American culture
Gender & American culture.
Contents Why try a writing career?: the ambiguous cultural context for women writers of the mid-nineteenth century -- Gentlemen and ladies: ideals and economics in the literary marketplace -- The place of gender in business: the career of E.D.E.N. Southworth -- The impact of domestic feminism: Harriet Beecher Stowe's mature career -- The battle for a fair marketplace: Mary Abigail Dodge versus James T. Fields -- "Very serious literary labor": the career of Helen Hunt Jackson -- The demise of feminine strength: the career of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (Ward) -- A final word: literary professionalism and women
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-242) and index
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Subject Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century
American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Authors and publishers -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Literature publishing -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Authorship -- History -- 19th century
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
American literature
American literature -- Women authors
Authors and publishers
Authorship
Literature publishing
Women and literature
Literatur
Frau
Vrouwelijke auteurs.
United States
USA
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 90012006
ISBN 0807860891
9780807860892