Feminist critics often focus on how authorship itself, particularly female authorship, is represented in and through Shelley's novels.
That's surely a hellishly mighty way to whack the men who produced a three-volume anthology of Irish writing in 1991 with but a cursory nod to female authorship and traditions.
Believing the author to have been Priscilla, Hoppin posits that the name was omitted either to suppress its female authorship, or to protect the letter itself from suppression.
Hoppin and others suggest that Priscilla was the author, but that her name was omitted either to suppress its female authorship, or to protect the letter itself from suppression.
Not only was Tarchetti's plagiarism a lie, but it had the antifeminist effect of suppressing an instance of female authorship.
Jane Collier's attitude to female authorship is unclear, but Henry Fielding, in a letter from Lisbon in 1754, praised her 'for an understanding more than female, mixed with virtues almost more than human'.
The result was a sense of liberation and freedom that had not previously been explored within British female authorship.
It is of interest mainly because of its early publication date and female authorship; a microfiche reprint was issued in 1980.
Scheick, William J. Authority and female authorship in colonial America University Press of Kentucky, 1998.
One salut d'amor, by a woman (Azalais d'Altier) to a woman (Clara d'Anduza) is also extant and one anonymous planh is usually assigned a female authorship.