The Cambridge Companion to Women’s Writing in the Romantic Period

The Cambridge Companion to Women’s Writing in the Romantic Period tackles a topic that has, largely, been ignored by scholars for hundreds of years: women authors. This book has gathered together over a dozen essays on female authors from the Romantic period, going across all genres. The various scholars discuss how gender comes together with other areas of life and one’s own identity, and how it affects the writing that came out of this period. The Romantic period delivered the first generations of women in England who wrote professionally, and Women’s Writing in the Romantic Period does a superb job...