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<P>This groundbreaking study explores the later lives and late-life writings of more than two dozen British women authors active during the long eighteenth century.</P><P>Drawing on biographical materials, literary texts, and reception histories, Devoney Looser finds that far from fading into moribund old age, female literary greats such as Anna Letitia Barbauld, Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Catharine Macaulay, Hester Lynch Piozzi, and Jane Porter toiled for decades after they achieved acclaim—despite seemingly concerted attempts by literary gatekeepers to marginalize their later contributions.</P><P>Though these remarkable women wrote and published well into old age, Looser sees in their late careers the necessity of choosing among several different paths. These included receding into the background as authors of "classics," adapting to grandmotherly standards of behavior, attempting to reshape masculinized conceptions of aged wisdom, or trying to create entirely new categories for older women writers. In assessing how these writers affected and were affected by the culture in which they lived, and in examining their varied reactions to the prospect of aging, Looser construc

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Author

Barbauld, Anna Letitia;Burney, Fanny;Edgeworth, Maria;Looser, Devoney

Publisher

Johns Hopkins University Press

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781421400228

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities