Devoney Looser is a professor of English at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She is the editor of Jane Austen and Discourses of Feminism and coeditor (with E. Ann Kaplan) of Generations: Academic Feminists in Dialogue.

Essential to feminist scholarship in its objective and individualized approach to these authors. -- Jessica Harvey The East-Central Intelligencer Devoney Looser's book is important. It establishes the historical consciousness at the core of the achievements of a group of notable women writers over a period of a century and a half... This book achieves its goal of bringing to our attention a series of meritorious writers and texts that exemplify the important place occupied by women in the intellectual life of eighteenth-century England. -- Everett Zimmerman Eighteenth-Century Fiction An excellent pioneering study of women's contribution to historiography in the long eighteenth century... Looser's work opens up several potential theses and books on historiography by women by drawing attention to the sheer range of possibilities of engagement with history as a form of writing. Modern Language Review Taken together, Looser's seven chapters make a persuasive case for locating women's authorship in a broader field of writing than usual. -- Deidre Lynch Modern Language Quarterly This is a highly intelligent book... Looser's arguments are stepped in the current scholarship on each of these women, and she is a generous scholar who always gives credit where it is due... she will have you thinking about [genre] as you never have before. -- Melinda S. Zook H-Albion, H-Net Reviews

• AcknowledgementsChapter 1. Introduction: British Women Writers and Historical DiscourseChapter 2. The True and Romantic History of Lucy Hutchinson's Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson Chapter 3. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Historian of Her Own TimeChapter 4. Charlotte Lennox and the Study and Use of HistoryChapter 5. "Deep Immers'd in the Historic Mine": Catharine Macaulay's History in LettersChapter 6. Hester Lynch Piozzi's Infinite and Exact World History, RetrospectionChapter 7. Reading Jane Austen and Rewriting "Herstory"NotesWorks CitedIndex

Devoney Looser is a professor of English at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She is the editor of Jane Austen and Discourses of Feminism and coeditor (with E. Ann Kaplan) of Generations: Academic Feminists in Dialogue.

Essential to feminist scholarship in its objective and individualized approach to these authors. -- Jessica Harvey The East-Central Intelligencer Devoney Looser's book is important. It establishes the historical consciousness at the core of the achievements of a group of notable women writers over a period of a century and a half... This book achieves its goal of bringing to our attention a series of meritorious writers and texts that exemplify the important place occupied by women in the intellectual life of eighteenth-century England. -- Everett Zimmerman Eighteenth-Century Fiction An excellent pioneering study of women's contribution to historiography in the long eighteenth century... Looser's work opens up several potential theses and books on historiography by women by drawing attention to the sheer range of possibilities of engagement with history as a form of writing. Modern Language Review Taken together, Looser's seven chapters make a persuasive case for locating women's authorship in a broader field of writing than usual. -- Deidre Lynch Modern Language Quarterly This is a highly intelligent book... Looser's arguments are stepped in the current scholarship on each of these women, and she is a generous scholar who always gives credit where it is due... she will have you thinking about [genre] as you never have before. -- Melinda S. Zook H-Albion, H-Net Reviews

• AcknowledgementsChapter 1. Introduction: British Women Writers and Historical DiscourseChapter 2. The True and Romantic History of Lucy Hutchinson's Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson Chapter 3. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Historian of Her Own TimeChapter 4. Charlotte Lennox and the Study and Use of HistoryChapter 5. "Deep Immers'd in the Historic Mine": Catharine Macaulay's History in LettersChapter 6. Hester Lynch Piozzi's Infinite and Exact World History, RetrospectionChapter 7. Reading Jane Austen and Rewriting "Herstory"NotesWorks CitedIndex

Devoney Looser is a professor of English at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She is the editor of Jane Austen and Discourses of Feminism and coeditor (with E. Ann Kaplan) of Generations: Academic Feminists in Dialogue.

Essential to feminist scholarship in its objective and individualized approach to these authors. -- Jessica Harvey The East-Central Intelligencer Devoney Looser's book is important. It establishes the historical consciousness at the core of the achievements of a group of notable women writers over a period of a century and a half... This book achieves its goal of bringing to our attention a series of meritorious writers and texts that exemplify the important place occupied by women in the intellectual life of eighteenth-century England. -- Everett Zimmerman Eighteenth-Century Fiction An excellent pioneering study of women's contribution to historiography in the long eighteenth century... Looser's work opens up several potential theses and books on historiography by women by drawing attention to the sheer range of possibilities of engagement with history as a form of writing. Modern Language Review Taken together, Looser's seven chapters make a persuasive case for locating women's authorship in a broader field of writing than usual. -- Deidre Lynch Modern Language Quarterly This is a highly intelligent book... Looser's arguments are stepped in the current scholarship on each of these women, and she is a generous scholar who always gives credit where it is due... she will have you thinking about [genre] as you never have before. -- Melinda S. Zook H-Albion, H-Net Reviews

• AcknowledgementsChapter 1. Introduction: British Women Writers and Historical DiscourseChapter 2. The True and Romantic History of Lucy Hutchinson's Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson Chapter 3. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Historian of Her Own TimeChapter 4. Charlotte Lennox and the Study and Use of HistoryChapter 5. "Deep Immers'd in the Historic Mine": Catharine Macaulay's History in LettersChapter 6. Hester Lynch Piozzi's Infinite and Exact World History, RetrospectionChapter 7. Reading Jane Austen and Rewriting "Herstory"NotesWorks CitedIndex