The Sign of Angellica: Women, Writing, and Fiction, 1660-1800Examining the writing of Aphra Behn, Frances Sheridan, Ann Radcliffe and Fanny Burney among others, this study describes the entry of women into literature as a profession in the 17th century. It describes how the fictional genre became the main vehicle for female self-expression. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
vii | 13 |
Women Writers of the Restoration | 36 |
The German Princess | 52 |
Aphra Behn | 69 |
5 | 84 |
Sentiment and Sincerity | 101 |
7 | 108 |
Frances Brooke | 176 |
The Decades of Revolution | 195 |
Women Writers of | 218 |
Mary Wollstonecraft | 236 |
Ann Radcliffe | 253 |
Fanny Burney | 273 |
Notes | 288 |
Bibliography | 304 |
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