Women Writers and the Artifacts of Celebrity in the Long Nineteenth Century
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alice
Alice Meynell
authors
Biographical Notice
birthday
Birthday Book
book
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Celebrity Culture
CGR
corelli
culture
Emily Faithfull
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female author public image construction
gendered authorship
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
Jo March
John Strange Winter
Lady Blessington
Lady's Pictorial
ladys
Lady’s Pictorial
Lawrence Portrait
Literary Celebrity
literary celebrity studies
Literary Gazette
Main Review
marie
Mistletoe Bough
Monthly Catalogue
nineteenth-century literature
notable
Notable Women Authors
pictorial
print culture studies
Rossetti Family
Sarah Grand
Tekahionwake
visual material culture
White Wampum
Woman Author
women in publishing history
Women Writers
Young Men
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- ISBN 9780754667025
- Weight: 680g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Feb 2012
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In 1788, the Catalogue of Five Hundred Celebrated Authors of Great Britain, Now Living forecast a form of authorship that rested on biographical revelation and media saturation as well as literary achievement. This collection traces the unique experiences of women writers within a celebrity culture that was intimately connected to the expansion of print technology and of visual and material culture in the nineteenth century. The contributors examine a wide range of artifacts, including prefaces, portraits, frontispieces, birthday books, calendars and gossip columns, to consider the nature of women's celebrity and the forces that created it. How did authors like Jane Austen, the Countess of Blessington, Louisa May Alcott, Alice Meynell, and Marie Corelli negotiate the increasing demands for public revelation of the private self? How did gender shape the posthumous participation of women writers such as Jane Austen, Ellen Wood, Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Christina Rossetti in celebrity culture? These and other important questions related to the treatment of women in celebrity genres and media, and the strategies women writers used to control their public images, are taken up in this suggestive exploration of how nineteenth and early twentieth century women writers achieved popular, critical, and commercial success.
Ann R. Hawkins is Professor of Bibliography in the Department of English at Texas Tech University, and Maura Ives is Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M University, USA.
