Women writing and women written

Abstract

Feminist literary historians have in recent years turned their attention to the early modern period for tracking the emergence of women writers into print and positing a burgeoning market in female literature. An enquiry of this kind must look to the relationship between the terms woman and writer, and consider woman as subject-matter for and in print. Using the history of the book as the frame work for discussion situates both women as writers and women as written in the context of the operations of the book trade. It allows women writers to be seen in relation to the intermediaries between writing and print (transcriber, amanuensis, editor, printer, bookseller) and in relation to a growing market for books about women. It takes into account the role of women in the material production of print (as printers, publisher/booksellers, binders, mercuries, hawkers); and bringing into view the evidence for women as consumers of print (buying, owning and reading books).

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