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.
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were selling points in a literary marketplace where religious opinion was a hot commodity—and that...
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...
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.