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Author DeWees, Shelley, author.

Title Not just Jane : rediscovering seven amazing women writers who transformed British literature / Shelley DeWees.

Publisher New York : Harper Perennial, c2016.

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 Superior adult nonfiction  820.9 D513n    AVAILABLE
Descript 320 pages ; 21 cm
Note Nonfiction.
Contents Introduction -- Charlotte Turner Smith (1749-1806) -- Helen Maria Williams (1759-1827) -- Mary Robinson (1758-1800) -- Catherine Crowe (c. 1800-1876) -- Sara Coleridge (1802-1852) -- Dinah Mulock Craik (1826-1887) -- Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915) -- Afterword.
Summary "Keynote Jane Austen and the Brontës endure as the leading ladies of English literature, but why are these reclusive parsons' daughters the only ones we remember? Funny and fascinating, Shelley DeWees's nonfiction debut, Not Just Jane, revisits British history through the extraordinary lives and work of seven long-forgotten authoresses--and wonders why they, and so many others, faded into obscurity (and what we are missing because of it)"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Women authors, English -- Biography.
English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History.
English fiction -- History and criticism.
Genre Biographies.
Added Title Women writers who transformed British literature.
ISBN/ISSN 0062394622
9780062394620