The Women of Grub Street:
Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace 1678-1730
The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace 1678-1730
(Oxford University Press 1998)
“Breakthrough Book”: Lingua Franca
Choice Magazine: CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award
“An outstanding synthesis of archival and cultural evidence; highly recommended for an advanced readership in literary and cultural studies, undergraduates and above” - Choice
“No one can ever again doubt the substantial presence of women in the seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century book trades and, as [McDowell’s] trawl of the state papers reveals, the women of Grub Street were routinely harassed by the authorities, who... saw in their ‘print activism’ a threat to the established order.” -The Eighteenth Century
“Destined to become a classic . . . fascinating historical research” - Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature
“Paula McDowell’s valuable book is both rich and strange. . . . She is splendid at breaking new ground” - The East-Central Intelligencer
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Reviewed in:
Age of Johnson, Albion, British Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies, Choice, East-Central Intelligencer, The Eighteenth-Century:Theory and Interpretation, Eighteenth-Century Life Gender and History, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, The Library, Lingua Franca, Restoration, Review of English Studies, Studies in English Literature, Tulsa Studies in Women and Literature, 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era