This collection traces the unique experiences of nineteenth-century women writers within a celebrity culture that was intimately connected to the expansion of print technology and of visual and material culture in the nineteenth century. The contributors examine a range of artifacts, including prefaces, portraits, frontispieces, birthday books and even gossip columns, in this suggestive exploration of how nineteenth-century women writers achieved popular, critical and commercial success.
This collection traces the unique experiences of nineteenth-century women writers within a celebrity culture that was intimately connected to the expansion of print technology and of visual and material culture in the nineteenth century. The contributors examine a range of artifacts, including prefaces, portraits, frontispieces, birthday books and even gossip columns, in this suggestive exploration of how nineteenth-century women writers achieved popular, critical and commercial success.
Ann R. Hawkins is Professor of Bibliography in the Department of English at Texas Tech University, and Maura Ives is Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M University, USA.
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Contents: Preface; Introduction: women writers and the artifacts of celebrity Maura Ives; Celebrity and anonymity in the Monthly Review's notices of 19th-century novels Stephanie Eckroth; 'Faultless herself as nearly as human nature can be': the construction of Jane Austen's public image 1817-1917 Katie Halsey; The portrait the beauty and the book: celebrity and the Countess of Blessington Ann R. Hawkins; 'A place among its more successful sisters': Louisa May Alcott's wayward Moods Catherine S. Blackwell; 'The summit of an author's fame': Victorian women writers and the Birthday Book Maura Ives; 'Almost idolatrous love': Caroline Dall Sarah Knowles Bolton Mary C. Crawford and the case of Elizabeth Whitman Jennifer Harris; Women writers and celebrity news at the fin de siècle Alexis Easley; 'A characteristic product of the present era': gender and celebrity in Helen C. Black's Notable Women Authors of the Day (1893) Troy J. Bassett; Presenting Alice Meynell: the book the photograph and the calendar Linda H. Peterson; Motherhood authorship and rivalry: sons' memoirs of the lives of Ellen Price Wood and Mary Elizabeth Braddon Jennifer Phegley; Commodifying the self: portraits of the artist in the novels of Marie Corelli Lizzie White; Pauline Johnson and celebrity in Canada: 'the most unique fixture in the literary world of today' Carole Gerson; Works cited; Index.
Contents: Preface; Introduction: women writers and the artifacts of celebrity Maura Ives; Celebrity and anonymity in the Monthly Review's notices of 19th-century novels Stephanie Eckroth; 'Faultless herself as nearly as human nature can be': the construction of Jane Austen's public image 1817-1917 Katie Halsey; The portrait the beauty and the book: celebrity and the Countess of Blessington Ann R. Hawkins; 'A place among its more successful sisters': Louisa May Alcott's wayward Moods Catherine S. Blackwell; 'The summit of an author's fame': Victorian women writers and the Birthday Book Maura Ives; 'Almost idolatrous love': Caroline Dall Sarah Knowles Bolton Mary C. Crawford and the case of Elizabeth Whitman Jennifer Harris; Women writers and celebrity news at the fin de siècle Alexis Easley; 'A characteristic product of the present era': gender and celebrity in Helen C. Black's Notable Women Authors of the Day (1893) Troy J. Bassett; Presenting Alice Meynell: the book the photograph and the calendar Linda H. Peterson; Motherhood authorship and rivalry: sons' memoirs of the lives of Ellen Price Wood and Mary Elizabeth Braddon Jennifer Phegley; Commodifying the self: portraits of the artist in the novels of Marie Corelli Lizzie White; Pauline Johnson and celebrity in Canada: 'the most unique fixture in the literary world of today' Carole Gerson; Works cited; Index.
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