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The Women Novelists

The Women Novelists

by R. Brimley Johnson

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Author
Johnson, R. Brimley (Reginald Brimley), 1867-1932
Title
The women novelists
Original Publication
United Kingdom: W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd.,1918.
Credits
The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
Language
English
LoC Class
PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject
English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 68939
Release Date
September 8, 2022
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.THE WOMEN NOVELISTS
  2. 2.Untitled
  3. 3.Untitled
  4. 4.CONTENTS
  5. 5.INTRODUCTION
  6. 6.THE FIRST WOMAN NOVELIST ( Fanny Burney , 1752-1840) — The Dangers of Sensibility — FOOTNOTES:
  7. 7.A PICTURE OF YOUTH — FOOTNOTES:
  8. 8.“CECILIA” TO “SENSE AND SENSIBILITY” (1782-1811)
  9. 9.A STUDY IN FINE ART ( Jane Austen, 1775-1817 ) — FOOTNOTES:
  10. 10.A “MOST ACCOMPLISHED COQUETTE” — FOOTNOTES:
  11. 11.PARALLEL PASSAGES — FOOTNOTES:
  12. 12.“PERSUASION” TO “JANE EYRE” (1818-1847) — FOOTNOTES:
  13. 13.A LONELY SOUL ( Charlotte Brontë, 1816-1855 )
  14. 14.“JANE EYRE” TO “SCENES OF CLERICAL LIFE” (1847-1858) — Preface to “The Daisy Chain; or, Aspirations” — FOOTNOTES:
  15. 15.A PROFESSIONAL WOMAN ( George Eliot , 1819-1880) — FOOTNOTES:
  16. 16.THE GREAT FOUR
  17. 17.THE WOMAN’S MAN
  18. 18.PERSONALITIES — FOOTNOTES:
  19. 19.CONCLUSION
  20. 20.APPENDIX — LIST OF MINOR WRITERS
  21. 21.INDEX OF AUTHORS AND TITLES — Transcriber’s Notes

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