03589oam 22006134a 450 991052489900332120210915031137.01-4214-0022-7(CKB)3240000000068899(MH)011564185-8(SSID)ssj0000607863(PQKBManifestationID)11973848(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000607863(PQKBWorkID)10585280(PQKB)11481416(MiAaPQ)EBC4398368(OCoLC)794701466(MdBmJHUP)muse2798(EXLCZ)99324000000006889920080108d2008 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrWomen Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750–1850Devoney LooserBaltimore :Johns Hopkins University Press,2008.©2008.1 online resource (xvi, 234 p. )ill. ;Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8018-8705-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-226) and index.Introduction: Women writers and old age, 1750-1850 -- Past the period of choosing to write a "love-tale"? : Frances Burney's and Maria Edgeworth's late fiction -- Catharine Macaulay's waning laurels -- What is old in Jane Austen? -- Hester Lynch Piozzi, antiquity of Bath -- "One generation passeth away, and another cometh" : Anna Letitia Barbauld's late literary work -- Jane Porter and the old woman writer's quest for financial independence -- Conclusion: "Old women now-a-days are not much thought of; out of sight out of mind with them, now-a-days.""This study explores the later lives and writings of more than two dozen British women authors active during the long eighteenth century." "Drawing on biographical materials, literary texts, and reception histories, Devoney Looser finds that, far from fading into moribund old age, female literary greats toiled for decades after they achieved acclaim - despite seemingly concerted attempts by literary gatekeepers to marginalize their later contributions." "Illuminating the powerful and often poorly recognized legacy of the British women writers who spurred a marketplace revolution in their earlier years only to find unanticipated barriers to acceptance in later life. Looser opens up new scholarly territory in the burgeoning field of women's studies and aging."--BOOK JACKET.Old ageSocial aspectsGreat BritainWomen and literatureGreat BritainHistory19th centuryWomen and literatureGreat BritainHistory18th centuryOlder womenGreat BritainEnglish literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticismElectronic books. Old ageSocial aspectsWomen and literatureHistoryWomen and literatureHistoryOlder womenEnglish literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticism.820.9/354Looser Devoney1967-1089343MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910524899003321Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750–18502627751UNINAThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress