British Women's Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century: Authorship, Politics and History

by Jennie Batchelor (Editor), C. Kaplan (Editor)

A constellation of new essays on authorship, politics and history, British Women's Writing in the Long Eighteenth Authorship, Politics and History presents the latest thinking about the debates raised by scholarship on gender and women's writing in the long eighteenth century. The essays highlight the ways in which women writers were key to the creation of the worlds of politics and letters in the period, reading the possibilities and limits of their engagement in those worlds as more complex and nuanced than earlier paradigms would suggest. Contributors include Norma Clarke, Janet Todd, Brian Southam , Harriet Guest, Isobel Grundy and Felicity Nussbaum. Published in association with the Chawton House Library, Hampshire - for more information, visit

204 pages, Hardcover

First published July 25, 2005

About the author

Jennie Batchelor lives in Reigate, Surrey, with her partner and two children, and teaches at the University of Kent. She has written and edited several books on women's writing, eighteenth-century dress and early women's magazines, and regularly gives public lectures and writes articles and guest blogs on these and other subjects. In April 2016 Jennie appeared on the New Statesman's Hidden Histories podcast series, 'The Great Forgetting: Women Writers before Jane Austen', and in 2017 she was invited to speak at the Cheltenham Literary Festival with Lucy Worsley and Sarah Moss about the enduring popularity of Jane Austen. She can regularly be heard on podcasts, the radio and sometimes on TV.

Jennie's longstanding interest in the history of fashion and needlework led to her curation of 'The Great Lady's Magazine Stitch Off', a project for which people around the world recreated rare, surviving embroidery patterns from the Lady's Magazine for an exhibition to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the publication of Jane Austen's Emma at Chawton House Library. She is Patron of the Kent branch of the Jane Austen Society

Reviews

[Juliana · Rating 3 out of 5]

3,5 stars. My review: https://theblankgarden.com/2018/11/08...

[Devoney Looser · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've had the pleasure of reviewing this book: Looser, Devoney. Rev. of British Women’s Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century: Authorship, Politics, and History, ed. Jennie Batchelor and Cora Kaplan. The Age of Johnson 19 (2009): 337–43. Print.