03782nam 2200865 a 450 991079194800332120200520144314.01-84779-776-81-78170-182-21-84779-267-7(CKB)2560000000085760(EBL)1069668(OCoLC)818847443(SSID)ssj0000712875(PQKBManifestationID)12259073(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000712875(PQKBWorkID)10650941(PQKB)10334195(StDuBDS)EDZ0000086845(OCoLC)990185907(MdBmJHUP)muse78085(Au-PeEL)EBL1069668(CaPaEBR)ebr10623271(MiAaPQ)EBC1069668(DE-B1597)659086(DE-B1597)9781847792679(EXLCZ)99256000000008576020101101d2010 uy 0engur|||---|||||txtccrWomen's work[electronic resource] labour, gender, authorship, 1750-1830 /Jennie BatchelorManchester ;New York Manchester University Press Distributed exclusively in the U.S. by Palgrave Macmillan20101 online resource (249 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7190-9558-1 0-7190-8257-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. [232]-244) and index.9780719082467; 9780719082467; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Archaeology and Elizabeth's empire; 2 Elizabethan fortifications in Ireland; 3 Colonial settlement; 4 Vernacular architecture; 5 The archaeology of Kilcolman Castle; 6 Spenserian architecture in Ireland; 7 Conclusions; Select bibliography; IndexWomen's Work challenges influential accounts about gender and the novel by revealing the complex ways in which labour, informed the lives and writing of a number of middling and genteel women authors publishing between 1750 and 1830.This book provides a particularly rich, yet largely neglected, seam of texts for exploring the vexed relationship between gender, work and writing. The four chapters that follow contain thoroughly contextualized case studies of the treatment of manual, intellectual and domestic labour in the work and careers of Sarah Scott, Charlotte Smith, Mary Wollstonecraft andEnglish fiction18th centuryHistory and criticismEnglish fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismEnglish fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticismLabor in literatureWomen in literatureWomenEmploymentGreat BritainHistory18th centuryWomenEmploymentGreat BritainHistory19th centuryCharlotte Smith.Literary Fund.Mary Wollstonecraft.Sarah Scott.division of labour.female-authored fiction.gender.women authors.women's work.writing.English fictionHistory and criticism.English fictionHistory and criticism.English fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticism.Labor in literature.Women in literature.WomenEmploymentHistoryWomenEmploymentHistory823.009355Batchelor Jennie1976-1108478MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910791948003321Women's work3868077UNINA