Women Writing about Money: Women's Fiction in England, 1790-1820

by Edward Copeland

This study addresses a paradox in the lives of women in Jane Austen's time who had no legal access to money yet were held responsible for domestic expenditure. The book translates the fictional money of the novels of Jane Austen's day into the power of contemporary spendable incomes, and from the perspective of what the British pound could buy at the market, the economic lives of women in the novels emerge as part of a general picture of women's economic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521616166
• ISBN13: 9780521616164
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"