Ann R. Hawkins and Maura Ives
Ashgate
Hardback
250
What does it mean to be both a woman writer and a celebrity? Bringing together scholars from the North America Britain and Australia this collection examines the nature of women's celebrity. Contributors examine a range of artifacts including prefaces portraits frontispieces and printed memoirs by friends and family. This collection is distinctive in its attention to women's participation with and self-fashioning of their own celebrity particularly through engagement with publishers and markets.
Ashgate
Hardback
250
What does it mean to be both a woman writer and a celebrity? Bringing together scholars from the North America Britain and Australia this collection examines the nature of women's celebrity. Contributors examine a range of artifacts including prefaces portraits frontispieces and printed memoirs by friends and family. This collection is distinctive in its attention to women's participation with and self-fashioning of their own celebrity particularly through engagement with publishers and markets.