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  • Chapter 15 - The Rise of the Woman Writer

  • from Part IV - The Languages of Literature
  • Edited by Matthew Campbell, University of York
  • Book:
    Irish Literature in Transition, 1830–1880
    Published online:
    29 February 2020
    Print publication:
    12 March 2020, pp 257-279

  • Summary

    Drawing on new archival research into book history, letters and periodical literature, this chapter explores the critical narratives around what it meant to be a woman writer between 1830 and 1880 via a focus on case studies of two Irish woman writers: Maria Edgeworth (1768–1849) and Mrs S. C. Hall (1800–1881). This focused approach allows a comprehensive placing of Irish women writers within the developing literary marketplace of their time and consideration of the extent to which the contemporary critical reception of their work has shaped subsequent scholarship. In doing so, the chapter uncovers a narrative of peaks and troughs, epitomised by periods of great esteem and critical disdain, and highlights the fluctuating patterns of visibility and invisibility of literary productions in the nineteenth century and beyond.