Women writers and the artifacts of celebrity in the long nineteenth century / edited by Ann R. Hawkins and Maura Ives.

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TextPublication details: London Routledge 2012.Description: xiv, 280 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. PbkISBN:

978-1138254220

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DDC classification:

820.9928709034 WOM

Contents:

Introduction: Women writers and the artifacts of celebrity / Maura Ives -- Celebrity and anonymity in the Monthly review's notices of nineteenth-century novels / Stephanie Eckroth -- "Faultless herself, as nearly as human nature can be": the construction of Jane Austen's public image, 1817-1917 / Katie Halsey -- Portrait, the beauty, and the book : celebrity and the Countess of Blessington / Ann R. Hawkins -- "A place among its more successful sisters" : Louisa May Alcott's wayward Moods / Catherine S. Blackwell -- "The summit of an author's fame" : Victorian women writers and the birthday book / Maura Ives -- "Almost idolatrous love" : Caroline Dall, Sarah Knowles Bolton, Mary C. Crawford and the case of Elizabeth Whitman / Jennifer Harris -- Women writers and celebrity news at the Fin de Siècle / Alexis Easley -- "A characteristic product of the present era" : gender and celebrity in Helen C. Black's Notable women authors of the day (1893) / Troy J. Bassett -- Presenting Alice Meynell : the book, the photograph, and the calendar / Linda H. Peterson -- Motherhood, authorship, and rivalry : sons' memoirs of the lives of Ellen Price Wood and Mary Elizabeth Braddon / Jennifer Phegley -- Commodifying the self : portraits of the artist in the novels of Marie Corelli / Lizzie White -- Pauline Johnson and celebrity in Canada : "the most unique fixture in the literary world of today" / Carole Gerson.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	H.T. Parekh Library	SIAS Collection	820.9928709034 WOM (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		K1238

TBH/SINV/00482/178
GBP.37.99/-

Includes bibliographical references and index ( p.257-280)

Introduction: Women writers and the artifacts of celebrity / Maura Ives --
Celebrity and anonymity in the Monthly review's notices of nineteenth-century novels / Stephanie Eckroth --
"Faultless herself, as nearly as human nature can be": the construction of Jane Austen's public image, 1817-1917 / Katie Halsey --
Portrait, the beauty, and the book : celebrity and the Countess of Blessington / Ann R. Hawkins --
"A place among its more successful sisters" : Louisa May Alcott's wayward Moods / Catherine S. Blackwell --
"The summit of an author's fame" : Victorian women writers and the birthday book / Maura Ives --
"Almost idolatrous love" : Caroline Dall, Sarah Knowles Bolton, Mary C. Crawford and the case of Elizabeth Whitman / Jennifer Harris --
Women writers and celebrity news at the Fin de Siècle / Alexis Easley --
"A characteristic product of the present era" : gender and celebrity in Helen C. Black's Notable women authors of the day (1893) / Troy J. Bassett --
Presenting Alice Meynell : the book, the photograph, and the calendar / Linda H. Peterson --
Motherhood, authorship, and rivalry : sons' memoirs of the lives of Ellen Price Wood and Mary Elizabeth Braddon / Jennifer Phegley --
Commodifying the self : portraits of the artist in the novels of Marie Corelli / Lizzie White --
Pauline Johnson and celebrity in Canada : "the most unique fixture in the literary world of today" / Carole Gerson.

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