The women of Grub Street : press, politics, and gender in the London literary marketplace, 1678-1730 /

Much new information is included in this study of the lives of women of middling to lower-class status, living in the London of the 17th and 18th centuries. The book focuses on their activities as authors, booksellers, hawkers, printers & singers.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McDowell, Paula
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Clarendon, 1998.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: 'Strange and Unheard of Revolutions'
  • pt. I. 'To Run One's Self Into Danger': Women and the Politics of Opposition in the London Book Trade
  • 1. Women in the London Book Trade
  • 2. Making, Tracing, and Erasing Seditious Intentions
  • pt. II. 'Telling the King His Faults': Religio-Political Polemicism and Women's Public Expression
  • 3. Oral Religio-Political Activism and Textual Production
  • 4. Metaphors of Being and Modes of Empowerment
  • pt. III. 'I Take Truth With Me When I Can Get Her': Delarivier Manley and the Reproduction of Political Intelligence
  • 5. Delarivier Manley's Public Representations. Conclusion: 'The Antidote to these Women's Poison'?