Women's Work: Labour, Gender, Authorship, 1750-1830

260 Pages·2010·1.578 MB·English

by  Jennie Batchelor

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Women’s work:
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7 Labour, gender, authorship,
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Manchester University Press
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distributed in the United States exclusively
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Copyright © Jennie Batchelor 2010
The right of Jennie Batchelor to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted
by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
Published byManchester University Press
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Contents
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211 Acknowledgements ix
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4 Introduction: lifting the veil of ‘Inchantment’ 1
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6 1 The ‘gift’ of work: labour, narrative and community
7 in the novels of Sarah Scott 29
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9 2 Somebody’s story: Charlotte Smith and the work of writing 67
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1 3 The ‘business’ of a woman’s life and the making of the
2 Female Philosopher: the works of Mary Wollstonecraft 108
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4 4 Women writers, the popular press and the Literary Fund,
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7 Coda: reading labour and writing women’s literary history 185
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9 Notes 189
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Acknowledgements
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4 benefited greatly from the comments and challenges offered by numerous
5 colleagues and friends. In particular, I would like to thank David
6 Ayers, Stephen Bending, Stephen Bygrave, Susan Carlile, Ben Dew,
7 Gillian Dow, Rod Edmond, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Nicky Hallett, Megan
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Hiatt, Sarah James, Cora Kaplan, Bernhard Klein, Donna Landry,
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Sarah Moss, Melissa Mowry, the late Sasha Roberts, Caroline Rooney,
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Norbert Schürer, David Stirrup, Scarlett Thomas and Linda Zionkowski.
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Markman Ellis, Isobel Grundy, Cora Kaplan, Elaine McGirr and Chloe
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Wigston Smith found time within their hectic worklives to read versions
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of some of the following chapters in draft, and I know that this book has
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been greatly strengthened by their insights. I am especially grateful to
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Sarah Moss, who read several chapters several times, and who otherwise
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kept me on track, and to Donna Landry who undertook the Sisyphean
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task of reading and commenting upon the entire manuscript. Her
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commitment to this project goes well beyond the remit of collegiality
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and I am deeply indebted to her.
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I would like to acknowledge the invaluable financial support of
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the University of Kent for a Colyer-Fergusson award and the British
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4 work at the Huntington Library and to consult Sarah Scott’s letters in
5 the Montagu Correspondence. The completion of the book would not
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7 University of Kent. I am also grateful to all of the editorial team at
8 Manchester University Press for their help and support throughout the
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