{"product_id":"women-in-print","title":"Women in Print","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e'This book should be regarded as rescue work. It salvages from pre-Victorian periodicals from the limbo of forgotten publications, and exhumes from long undisturbed sources a curious collection of women who, at a time when it was considered humiliating for a gentlewoman to earn money, contrived to support themselves by writing, editing, or publishing... sometimes even supporting husbands and children as well...\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe women who emerge make a motley gallery; but over the years that I have been getting to know them, they have won my respectful affection. More, indeed. To me they are all heroines...'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlison Adburgham, from her Foreword\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMagazines addressed to women have a long history in English, and have been subject to condescension for just as long. Alison Adburgham's groundbreaking volume, first published in 1972, rescues the so-called 'scribbling female' from such scorn, not least by documenting just how hard was the struggle for women writers to live by the pen.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54243655024984,"sku":"9780571295241","price":21.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780571295241_cb1ffdae-f325-4a9c-b173-4b9aefdd5994.jpg?v=1765958411","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/women-in-print","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}