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Not just Jane : rediscovering seven amazing women writers who transformed British literature /

"Keynote Jane Austen and the Brontës endure as the leading ladies of English literature, but why are these reclusive parsons' daughters the only ones we remember? Funny and fascinating, Shelley DeWees's nonfiction debut, Not Just Jane, revisits British history through the extraordinar...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: DeWees, Shelley (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Harper Perennial, [2016]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Women authors, English > Biography.
English literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Women and literature > Great Britain > History.
English fiction > History and criticism.
English fiction.
English literature > Women authors.
Women and literature.
Women authors, English.
Great Britain.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Women.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
Biography.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
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Summary:"Keynote Jane Austen and the Brontës endure as the leading ladies of English literature, but why are these reclusive parsons' daughters the only ones we remember? Funny and fascinating, Shelley DeWees's nonfiction debut, Not Just Jane, revisits British history through the extraordinary lives and work of seven long-forgotten authoresses--and wonders why they, and so many others, faded into obscurity (and what we are missing because of it)"--
Physical Description:320 pages ; 21 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-320).
ISBN:9780062394620
0062394622