Overview: Tears down common biographical understandings of British women writers, offering these writers in a new light.Covers an impressive range of writers including Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Barrett Browning.This book is an investigation of the biases, contradictions, errors, ambiguities, gaps, and historical contexts in biographies of controversial British women who published during the long nineteenth century, many of them left unchecked and perpetuated from publication to publication. Fourteen scholars analyze the agenda, problems, and strengths of biographical material, highlighting the
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