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WOMEN READERS AND THE FEMINISATION OF FICTION WOMEN READERS AND THE FEMINISATION OF FICTION
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TRANSLATORS, PATRONS, AND EDITORS; OR WOMEN’S HIDDEN CONTRIBUTIONS TO EARLY MODERN BRITISH FICTION TRANSLATORS, PATRONS, AND EDITORS; OR WOMEN’S HIDDEN CONTRIBUTIONS TO EARLY MODERN BRITISH FICTION
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WOMEN WRITERS AND THE AFFORDANCES OF FICTION WOMEN WRITERS AND THE AFFORDANCES OF FICTION
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CONCLUSION CONCLUSION
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FURTHER READING FURTHER READING
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17 Women and Fiction
Get accessLara Dodds is Professor of English at Mississippi State University and the author of The Literary Invention of Margaret Cavendish. Her research areas include Margaret Cavendish, early modern women’s writing, John Milton, and adaptation studies, and she has published in each of these fields. Recent essays include ‘Envy, Emulation, and the Problem of Romance in Mary Wroth’s Urania’ (ELR 2018) and ‘Virtual or Immediate Touch: Queer Adaptation of Paradise Lost in Fantasy and Science Fiction’, which appeared in Queer Milton, edited by David Orvis (Palgrave MacMillan, 2018). She is currently a member of the advisory board and a contributing editor of The Pulter Project: A Poet in the Making, an innovative online edition of Hester Pulter’s poetry. With Michelle M. Dowd, she is the author of ‘A Feminist Case for a Return to Form’ (Early Modern Women 2018), an essay that examines the field of early modern women’s writing from a methodological perspective.
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Published:19 December 2022
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Abstract
Virginia Woolf’s thought experiment—or fiction—of Judith Shakespeare was part of a larger investigation of the problem of ‘women and fiction’. This chapter returns to this problem with an investigation of the different ways that early modern women were associated with fiction: as patrons, addressees, readers, writers, and theorists. This chapter provides an overview of women’s participation in fiction in the earlier part of the seventeenth century. The examples of Margaret Tyler and Mary Sidney Herbert demonstrate women’s influence on the development of early modern fiction as translators, editors, and co-authors. Further, the association of women and fiction in the period created ‘women and fiction’ as a complex of ideas that shaped women’s engagement with fiction as both readers and writers. This chapter analyses Mary Wroth and Margaret Cavendish’s fictional works, demonstrating how these writers developed theories about the power of fiction to reflect and shape the conditions of women’s lives.
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