17347 2023 Chicago Beachcroft

Beachcroft

8 volumes - PP

The text is as fascinating as the manuscripts

A hidden river runs under Persuasion's tale

This is a reduced version of the two-volume encyclopedia Olsen published in 2005

17347 2023 Chicago BeachcroftThe Introduction is subtitled "Before Miss Burney." While many authors are discussed, special focus is given to Burney, Austen, Charlotte Bronte, and George Eliot. Johnson credits women with developing and perfecting the "domestic novel," with making circulating libraries respectable, and with "establishing the right, and the power, of women to write fiction," as well as with the creation of novels for young people and the "national" novel. He credits