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    Women Proprietors of Copyright in England, 1675–1775

Women Proprietors of Copyright in England, 1675–1775

Leah Orr
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      How did women in early modern England protect their investments in copyrights and realize profits from them? This new study explores the ways that women who owned copyright sought to turn manuscripts into money and protect their investments in intellectual property for themselves and their posterity. Through an analysis of previously unpublished archival sources and a new examination of print sources, this study shows that women copyright proprietors contributed to the establishment of copyright as a sellable commodity at a time when it was still undefined. Women Proprietors of Copyright charts a new history of copyright and women’s labor in the book trade at a crucial period of its development.

      Format: Paperback / softback CONTRIBUTORS: Leah Orr EAN: 9789004737914 COUNTRY: Netherlands PAGES: 102 WEIGHT: 187 g HEIGHT: 235 mm
      PUBLISHED BY: Brill DATE PUBLISHED: 2025-08-14 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies WIDTH: 155 mm SPINE:

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      England, Later 17th century c 1650 to c 1699, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Gender studies: women and girls

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      Leah Orr is Professor of English at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette. She works on fiction, women writers, and the book trade in the long eighteenth century and is the author of two books, most recently Publishing the Woman Writer in England, 1670–1750 (2023).

      How did women in early modern England protect their investments in copyrights and realize profits from them? This new study explores the ways that women who owned copyright sought to turn manuscripts into money and protect their investments in intellectual property for themselves and their posterity. Through an analysis of previously unpublished archival sources and a new examination of print sources, this study shows that women copyright proprietors contributed to the establishment of copyright as a sellable commodity at a time when it was still undefined. Women Proprietors of Copyright charts a new history of copyright and women’s labor in the book trade at a crucial period of its development.

      Format: Paperback / softback CONTRIBUTORS: Leah Orr EAN: 9789004737914 COUNTRY: Netherlands PAGES: 102 WEIGHT: 187 g HEIGHT: 235 mm
      PUBLISHED BY: Brill DATE PUBLISHED: 2025-08-14 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies WIDTH: 155 mm SPINE:

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      England, Later 17th century c 1650 to c 1699, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Gender studies: women and girls

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      Leah Orr is Professor of English at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette. She works on fiction, women writers, and the book trade in the long eighteenth century and is the author of two books, most recently Publishing the Woman Writer in England, 1670–1750 (2023).

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