Economic imperatives for women's writing in early modern Europe / edited by Carme Font Paz and Nina Geerdink.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: women, professionalisation, and patronage / Carme Font Paz and Nina Geerdink -- Women authors' reputation and its relationship to money earned: some early French writers as examples / Suzan van Dijk -- Words for sale: early modern Spanish women's literary economy / Nieves Baranda -- Fighting for her profession: Dorothe's Engelbretsdatter's discourse of self-defence / Marie Nedregotten S�rb� -- Writing for patronage or patronage for writing: two case studies in seventeenth-century and post-restoration women's poetry in Britain / Carme Font Paz -- Possibilities of patronage: the Dutch poet Elisabeth Hoofman and her German patrons / Nina Geerdink -- Between patronage and professional writing: the situation of eighteenth century women of letters in Venice: the example of Luisa Bergalli Gozzi / Rotraud von Kulessa -- From Queen's librarian to voice of the Neapolitan Republic: Eleonora de Fonseca Pimentel / Irene Zanini-Cordi -- "[S]ome employment in the translating way": economic imperatives in Charlotte Lennox's career as a translator / Marianna D'Ezio -- Beating the odds: Sophie Albrecht (1756-1840), a successful woman writer and publisher in eighteenth-century Germany / Berit C.R. Royer.

"The study of women's writing has become a lively field that has partaken in and given rise to many new directions in the broader field of literary studies"-- Provided by publisher.