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Women's Work

Women's Work

Labour, Gender, Authorship, 1750-1830

by Jennie Batchelor
Hardback
Publication Date: 01/06/2010

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Women's Work challenges influential accounts about gender and the novel by revealing the complex ways in which labour, informed the lives and writing of a number of middling and genteel women authors publishing between 1750 and 1830.

This book provides a particularly rich, yet largely neglected, seam of texts for exploring the vexed relationship between gender, work and writing. The four chapters that follow contain thoroughly contextualized case studies of the treatment of manual, intellectual and domestic labour in the work and careers of Sarah Scott, Charlotte Smith, Mary Wollstonecraft and women applicants to the writer's charity, the Literary Fund.

By making women's work visible in our studies of female-authored fiction of the period, Batchelor reveals the crucial role that these women played in articulating debates about the gendered division of labour, the (in)compatibility of women's domestic and professional lives and the status and true value of women's work that shaped eighteenth-century culture as surely as they shape our own. -- .
ISBN:
9780719082573
9780719082573
Category:
Literary studies: fiction
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
01-06-2010
Language:
English
Publisher:
Manchester University Press
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
264
Dimensions (mm):
216x138x25mm
Weight:
0.45kg
Jennie Batchelor

Jennie Batchelor is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of Kent and the author of five books and many articles and book chapters.

Jennie has co-hosted embroidery workshops and given various talks about embroidery, Jane Austen and Regency fashion for many events, including Lucy Worsley's BBC documentary 'Jane Austen: Behind Closed Doors'.

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