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.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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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'?