The History of British Women's Writing, 1830-1880

Lucy Hartley is Professor of English at the University of Michigan, USA. She is the author of two books, Physiognomy and the Meaning of Expression in Nineteenth-Century Culture (2001) and Democratising Beauty in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Art and the Politics of Public Life (2017), as well as numerous articles on the political and aesthetic dimensions of nineteenth-century British culture.

1. Introduction. The ‘business’ of writing women - Lucy Hartley.- 2. The Feminisation of Literary Culture - Joanne Shattock.- 3. Authorship, Gender, and the Periodical Press - Alexis Easley.- 4. The Professional Woman Writer - Linda K. Hughes.- 5. Mapping the Nation: Scotland and Britain - Suzanne Gilbert.- 6. Representing Ireland - Margaret Kelleher.- 7. Runaway Discourse: Women Write Slavery, Race, and Empire - Cora Kaplan.- 8. Women Writers and the Provincial Novel - Josephine McDonagh.- 9. Library Lives of Women -Susan David Bernstein.- 10. Travel Writing - Ella Dzelzainis.- 11. Religious Genres - Julie Melnyk.- 12. Women Playwrights and the London Stage - Sharon Aronofsky Weltman.- 13. Life Writing - Valerie Sanders.- 14. Scientific and Medical Genres - Claire Brock.- 15. Creativity - Alison Chapman.- 16. Sensation, Art, and Capital - Lucy Hartley.- 17. Writing Across the Class Divide - Florence S. Boos.- 18. Friendship and Intimacy - Jill Rappoport.- 19. Sympathy - Carolyn Burdett.