Women's Writing, 1660-1830 2016
DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-54382-0_9
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‘There Are Numbers of Very Choice Books’*: Book Ownership and the Circulation of Women’s Texts, 1680–98

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“…Contrary to many assumptions about Cavendish's reception, she was well‐known insofar as she was the most circulated British female author in Restoration advertisements aimed at those eager to supplement their personal libraries (Coolahan & Empey, 2016, pp. 139–157).…”
Section: Margaret Cavendish and Gabriel Danielmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Contrary to many assumptions about Cavendish's reception, she was well‐known insofar as she was the most circulated British female author in Restoration advertisements aimed at those eager to supplement their personal libraries (Coolahan & Empey, 2016, pp. 139–157).…”
Section: Margaret Cavendish and Gabriel Danielmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Marie‐Louise Coolahan and Mark Empey, in “'There Are Numbers of Very Choice Books”:Book Ownership and the Circulation of Women's Texts, 1680–98,” study printed auction catalogs of 13 bibliophiles in the last two decades of the seventeenth century as a means of discovering patterns in how books by women's writers were collected (Coolahan & Empey, 2016). Emerging from the RECIRC project (Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Women's Writing, 1550–1700), their essay “participates in a shift away from recovery research toward interrogating women's place in literary history via the assessment of textual transmission and audience” (Coolahan, 2020, p. 140).…”
Section: History Of Readingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Of the thirty-seven women's collections they analyzed, only seven included books authored by women, and even there the proportions were low: between 1.25% and 7.69% of the total (the latter in a collection of only thirty-nine books). 13 While it may well be possible that these figures rose with the increased availability of works by women toward the end of the seventeenth century, reaching unprecedented levels during the eighteenth century, the data lending support to this claim remains fragmentary-despite suggestive case studies by scholars like Heissler, Alessa Johns, or Máire Kennedy. 14 We posit, then, that statements about women's preference for works by other women, as well as ideas regarding the gendered reception of works authored by women, need to be weighed carefully, since they sometimes seem to fit rather too easily into modern-day gender categories.…”
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confidence: 99%