Comitini, Patricia. Vocational Philanthropy and British Women’s Writing, 1790–1810: Wollstonecraft, More, Edgeworth, Wordsworth. Aldershot, Hants and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2005.
Abstract (jacket): “Patricia Comitini’s study compels serious rethinking of how literature by women in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries should be read. Beginning with a description of the ways in which evolving conceptions of philanthropy were foundational to constructions of class and gender roles, Comitini argues that these changes enabled a particular kind of feminine benevolence that was linked to women’s work as writers.”
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