{"product_id":"9781446444986","title":"The Rise And Fall Of The Woman Of Letters","description":"\u003cp\u003eIf Aphra Benn is widely regarded as the first important woman writer in English, who was the second? In literary history, the eighteenth century belongs to men: Pope and Swift, Richardson and Fielding. Asked to name a woman, even the specialist stumbles. Jane Austen? She didn't publish until 1811. Aphra Benn herself? She died in 1869.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Rise and Fall of the Woman of Letters\u003c\/i\u003e tells the remarkable but little-known story of women writers in the eighteenth century - of poets, critics, dramatists and scholars celebrated in their own time but all but forgotten by the beginning of the new century. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEliza Haywood, Catherine Cockburn, Elizabeth Elstob, Delarivier Manley, Elizabeth Rowe, Jane Barker, Elizabeth Thomas, Anna Seward... In a book which ranges from country house to Grub Street, Norma Clarke recovers these and other writers, establishes the reasons for their eclipse and discovers that a room of one's own in the eighteenth century was as likely to be a prison cell as a boudoir.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House Adult Trade Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47143185481968,"sku":"9781446444986","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781446444986_p0.jpg?v=1763826928","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781446444986","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}