The Unwritten History of the Woman of Genius (Austen, Staël, Siddons): What She Says, Goes

• Published in: Romanticism (Edinburgh) Vol. 29; no. 2; pp. 165 - 176
• Main Author: Lynch, Deidre
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: UK Edinburgh University Press 01.07.2023
• Subjects: Literary Studies; voice; genius; performance; memory; transmission; Jane Austen; media; improvisation

Jane Austen, Clifford Siskin once proposed, was for a long time the sole exception to the ‘Great Forgetting’: the only female author from a period when women in fact dominated the literary marketplace whom English-language readers still remembered a century later. The better to recover Austen’s own...