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"The eighteenth-century bestseller that may have inspired Jane Austen's" Sense and Sensibility "republished for the first time in a modern edition"
One of the most popular and prolific authors of her time, Jane West (1758-1852) enjoyed her greatest success with "A Gossip's Story, and A Legendary Tale" (1796), one of the best-selling novels of its era. Yet in addition to its significance as a lost classic by a neglected woman writer, "A Gossip's Story" has long been recognized by scholars as a likely influence on Jane Austen's celebrated novel "Sense and Sensibility" (1811).
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The Romantic period saw the first generations of professional women writers flourish in Great Britain. Literary history is only now giving them the attention they deserve, for the quality of their writings and for their popularity in their own time. This collection of new essays by leading scholars explores the challenges and achievements of this fascinating set of women writers, including Jane Austen, Mary Wollstonecraft, Ann Radcliffe, Hannah More, Maria Edgeworth, and Mary Shelley alongside many lesser-known female authors writing and publishing during this period. Chapters consider major...