Acknowledgements
Note on citations
Introduction: 'building on public approbation'
1. Frances Sheridan, John Home, and public virtue
2. The politicised pastoral of Frances Brooke
3. Sarah Scott, historian, in the republic of letters
4. The (female) literary careers of Sarah Fielding and Charlotte Lennox
5. Harmless mediocrity: Edward Kimber and the Minifie sisters
6. From propensity to profession in the early career of Frances Burney
7. Women writers and 'the Great Forgetting'
Coda
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
Acknowledgements; Note on citations; Introduction: 'building on public approbation'; 1. Frances Sheridan, John Home, and public virtue; 2. The politicised pastoral of Frances Brooke; 3. Sarah Scott, historian, in the republic of letters; 4. The (female) literary careers of Sarah Fielding and Charlotte Lennox; 5. Harmless mediocrity: Edward Kimber and the Minifie sisters; 6. From propensity to profession in the early career of Frances Burney; 7. Women writers and 'the Great Forgetting'; Coda; Notes; Bibliography; Index.