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'This important book of new essays is a fitting tribute to the opening in 2003 of the Chawton House Library and Study Centre. Like the Chawton Library itself, Batchelor and Kaplan's collection is powerful evidence of the vitality of research and scholarship on women's writing in the long eighteenth century. Alert to the complex politics of authorship and gender, the case studies offered here are yet further evidence of women's involvement at the heart of eighteenth-century print culture. And in bringing together the work of established critics with that of younger scholars, they represent some of the most exciting work on this period currently available.' - Vivien Jones, Professor of Eighteenth-Century Gender and Culture, University of Leeds, UK 'With its many strong essays, sensible organization and contextualization in the introduction and in Grundy's closing essay, British Women's Writing is an important contribution to our understanding of female authorship in this period.' - Laura J. Rosenthal, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature '...[a] fine volume...whets the appetite to read, to make sense of, and to write about more British women's texts of the long eighteenth century.' - Devoney Looser, The Age of Johnson