Behn's death, this elegy says, is a disaster for women's writing, for no other woman dares her Laurel wear.
qtd. in
Mendelson, Sara Heller. The Mental World of Stuart Women: Three Studies. Harvester Press, 1987.
182
For a while it remained possible for women writers like Jane Barker
to claim descent...
Literary responses
Mary Pix
Jane Spencer
points out that modern criticism has not been appreciative of MP
: Jacqueline Pearson
has said that she deals in conventional male stereotypes and gives women no more air time than do male...
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Texts
Scott, Sarah, and Jane Spencer. A Description of Millenium Hall. Virago, 1986.
Inchbald, Elizabeth. A Simple Story. Editors Tompkins, Joyce Marjorie Sanxter and Jane Spencer, Oxford University Press, 1988.
Spencer, Jane. Aphra Behn’s Afterlife. Oxford University Press, 2000.
Spencer, Jane. “Drama”. The History of British Women’s Writing, 1690-1750, edited by Ros Ballaster, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, pp. 145-55.
Inchbald, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. A Simple Story, edited by Jane Spencer and Joyce Marjorie Sanxter Tompkins, Oxford University Press, 1988, p. vii - xxxiii.
Prescott, Sarah, and Jane Spencer. “Prattling, tattling and knowing everything: public authority and the female editorial persona in the early essay-periodical”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
23
, No. 1, pp. 43-57.
Spencer, Jane. The Rise of the Woman Novelist. Blackwell, 1986.
Spencer, Jane. “The Sons of Behn”. Women and Literary History Conference, Edmonton, AB.