Paula McDowell

Standard Name: McDowell, Paula

Connections

Connections	Author name Sort descending	Excerpt
Occupation	Marie-Catherine d' Aulnoy	Literary historian Paula McDowell believes that MCA worked as a spy for the French government (as Aphra Behn did for the English). McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon. 263-4 and n88
Textual Production	Elizabeth Bathurst	Paula McDowell records this business decision, taken some years (or possibly only some weeks) after EB 's death. Tace Sowle specifically mentioned for inclusion Bathurst's The Sayings of Women, 1683, which appears in the...
Textual Features	Anne Docwra	Scholar Paula McDowell notes that the outrageous rudeness . . . . taunting jests, breathless rant, and verbal jousting McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon. 147 were selling points in a literary marketplace where religious opinion was a hot commodity—and that...
Author summary	Elinor James	EJ was a publisher and political writer in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, as well as a tireless admonisher of monarchs and fervent supporter of the Church of England . Her tone has...
Occupation	Elinor James	Literary historian Paula McDowell points out that although traditional histories of the book trade reckon that EJ became a printer and publisher only when she became a widow, she was in fact in the business...
Material Conditions of Writing	Elinor James	The count of ninety of EJ 's writings surviving has been raised from a previous but still recent estimate of about fifty known. The English Short Title Catalogue lists twenty titles beginning with the words...
Literary responses	Elinor James	Literary historian Paula McDowell thinks EJ 's work was taken seriously by close observers of the London political scene.
Textual Production	Elinor James	EJ began to address James II probably early in his reign, in Most Dear Soveraign, I Cannot but Love and Admire You. McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon. 137-8 The English Short Title Catalogue dates this [1689], but Paula McDowell
Birth	Jane Lead	Jane Ward (later JL ) was born in Norfolk. Her biographer Joanne Magnani Sperle notes that JL 's year of birth is open to debate (most biographers, and commentator Paula McDowell , list it...
Textual Features	Jane Lead	Here JL urges her readers: Dive into your own Celestiality, and see with what manner of spirits you are endued: for in them the powers do entirely lie for Transformation. McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon. 177 Critic Paula McDowell insists...
Reception	Jane Lead	Interest in JL has been growing in recent times. Apart from two doctoral dissertations (Joanne Magnani Sperle 's God's Healing Angel: A Biography of Jane Lead, Kent State University , 1985, and Julie Hirst
Textual Features	Delarivier Manley	DM writes of herself as an expert in love, despite what she describes as her unalluring appearance. She presents herself, however, through men's eyes and as a topic of male gossip (in contrast with the...
Textual Production	Delarivier Manley	DM dated the preface to The Adventures of Rivella, her fictionalised autobiography or secret history published with Edmund Curll within the month. In this year, scholar Paula McDowell notes, DM publicly renounced politics as...
Author summary	Delarivier Manley	DM was a pioneer in many fields: poetry, drama, journalism, and fiction, and the genres with which the fiction of her period interlocked: letters, soft pornography, satire, secret history, romance autobiography, and political polemic...
Family and Intimate relationships	Delarivier Manley	A baby boy who was born in summer and died in December 1694 at Truro in Cornwall, who was registered as the child of John Manley and his first or legitimate wife, may have been...

Timeline

1720-9

Only about 1.1 percent of English annual print production was composed of fiction (both new and reprinted).

By 1770

The proportion of fiction among annual publications in England had risen to four percent (from 1.1% in about 1730).

Texts

James, Elinor. Elinor James. Editor McDowell, Paula, Ashgate, 2005.

James, Elinor. “Introductory Note”. Elinor James, edited by Paula McDowell, Ashgate, 2005, p. v - xxviii.

McDowell, Paula. “Narrative Authority, Critical Complicity: The Case of <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Jonathan Wild</span&gt”;. Studies in the Novel, Vol.

, No. 2, pp. 211-31.

McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.

McDowell, Paula. “Women and the business of print”. Women and Literature in Britain, 1700-1800, edited by Vivien Jones, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 135-54.