Women Writers of the 17th Century

Chapman, Mary

Fraiman, Susan

Orgelfinger, Gail

Lafon, Lola

<p> Contributors to the volume not only investigate the gendered effect of Spanish texts and literary types on English and French drama, they address the actual journeys of Spanish actresses to French theaters and of Italian actresses to the Spanish stage, while several emphasize the movement of royal women to various courts and their impact on theatrical activity in Spain and abroad. In their innovative focus on women's participation and influence, the chapters in this volume illustrate the frequent yet little studied transnational and transcultural points of contact between Spanish theater and the national theaters of England, France, Austria, and Italy.　　</p>

Composed of serialized works, poems, short tales, and novellas, Charlotte Brontë's juvenilia merit serious scholarly attention as revelatory works in and of themselves as well as for what they tell us about the development of Brontë as a writer. This collection attends to both critical strands, positioning Brontë's career within the Romantic and Victorian eras and delving into the nineteenth century's literary concerns and the growth of the writer's mind.