Domesticating the Typewriter

• Published in: The Typewriter Century p. 172
• Main Author: MARTYN LYONS
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: University of Toronto Press 01.02.2021

Historically speaking, women authors have hesitated to take up the pen. Critics writing about nineteenth-century English literature have pointed to the feelings of fear and guilt that deterred a woman from assuming a public role as an author – fear of male hostility or condescension, guilt and fear...