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http://www.womenwriters.nl/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Fighting_for_her_profession Fighting for her profession - Revision history 2026-05-14T00:26:52Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.9.3 http://www.womenwriters.nl/index.php?title=Fighting_for_her_profession&diff=7604&oldid=prev SvDijk at 08:43, 4 July 2012 2012-07-04T08:43:42Z

<p></p> <table border='0' width='98%' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='4' style="background-color: white;"> <tr> <td colspan='2' width='50%' align='center' style="background-color: white;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' width='50%' align='center' style="background-color: white;">Revision as of 08:43, 4 July 2012</td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" align="left"><strong>Line 4:</strong></td> <td colspan="2" align="left"><strong>Line 4:</strong></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"><br><br><br></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"><br><br><br></td></tr> <tr><td>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; font-size: smaller;">'''Fighting for her profession<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">]]</span>: [http://neww.huygens.knaw.nl/authors/show/3638 Dorothe]’s discourse of self-defence'''<br><br></td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">'''Fighting for her profession: [http://neww.huygens.knaw.nl/authors/show/3638 Dorothe]’s discourse of self-defence'''<br><br></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">As [http://neww.huygens.knaw.nl/authors/show/309 Aphra Behn] argued for her vocation as the first professional woman writer in England, a six year older Scandinavian colleague did the same from her corner of Europe. Writing from the Norwegian city of Bergen, [http://neww.huygens.knaw.nl/authors/show/3638 Dorothe Engelbretsdatter] (1634-1716) acquired fame and popularity among her contemporaries. Her two books of religious poetry were published in Denmark as well as Norway, and reprinted and reused for a couple of centuries to come. Their status as best-sellers is confirmed by the fact that there were six editions of the first title in her own lifetime, and numerous more to come. When her fellow poet Petter Dass tried to buy a copy, it had sold out and he wrote a rhyming letter begging the poetess herself to send him one. </td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">As [http://neww.huygens.knaw.nl/authors/show/309 Aphra Behn] argued for her vocation as the first professional woman writer in England, a six year older Scandinavian colleague did the same from her corner of Europe. Writing from the Norwegian city of Bergen, [http://neww.huygens.knaw.nl/authors/show/3638 Dorothe Engelbretsdatter] (1634-1716) acquired fame and popularity among her contemporaries. Her two books of religious poetry were published in Denmark as well as Norway, and reprinted and reused for a couple of centuries to come. Their status as best-sellers is confirmed by the fact that there were six editions of the first title in her own lifetime, and numerous more to come. When her fellow poet Petter Dass tried to buy a copy, it had sold out and he wrote a rhyming letter begging the poetess herself to send him one. </td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table border='0' width='98%' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='4' style="background-color: white;"> <tr> <td colspan='2' width='50%' align='center' style="background-color: white;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' width='50%' align='center' style="background-color: white;">Revision as of 08:43, 4 July 2012</td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" align="left"><strong>Line 4:</strong></td> <td colspan="2" align="left"><strong>Line 4:</strong></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"><br><br><br></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"><br><br><br></td></tr> <tr><td>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; font-size: smaller;">Fighting for her profession]]: [http://neww.huygens.knaw.nl/authors/show/3638 Dorothe]’s discourse of self-defence<br><br></td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">'''</span>Fighting for her profession]]: [http://neww.huygens.knaw.nl/authors/show/3638 Dorothe]’s discourse of self-defence<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">'''</span><br><br></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; font-size: smaller;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Speakers: <br></span></td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">As </span>[http://<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">neww</span>.<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">huygens.knaw</span>.nl/<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">authors</span>/<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">show/309 Aphra Behn</span>] <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">argued </span>for her <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">vocation as the first professional woman writer in England, a six year older Scandinavian colleague did the same from her corner of Europe. Writing from the Norwegian city of Bergen, </span>[http://neww.huygens.knaw.nl/authors/show/3638 Dorothe <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Engelbretsdatter</span>] <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">(1634-1716) acquired fame and popularity among her contemporaries. Her two books </span>of <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">religious poetry were published in Denmark as well as Norway, and reprinted and reused for a couple of centuries to come. Their status as best</span>-<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">sellers is confirmed by the fact that there were six editions of the first title in her own lifetime, and numerous more to come. When her fellow poet Petter Dass tried to buy a copy, it had sold out and he wrote a rhyming letter begging the poetess herself to send him one. </span></td></tr> <tr><td>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; font-size: smaller;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">*</span>[http://<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">www</span>.<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">womenwriters</span>.nl/<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">index.php</span>/<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Marie_Nedregotten_Sorbo Marie Nedregotten Sørbø</span>]<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">:<br> </span></td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;"> </td></tr> <tr><td>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; font-size: smaller;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">[[Fighting </span>for her <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">profession]]: </span>[http://neww.huygens.knaw.nl/authors/show/3638 Dorothe]<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">’s discourse </span>of <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">self</span>-<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">defence<br></span></td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Dorothe Engelbretsdatter has gone down in literary history as the first professional woman poet in Denmark-Norway, and it is indeed an honour that she claimed for herself, as she refers to herself as the first ‘She-Poet in the Kingdoms’</span>. <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Although admired by the young dramatist Ludvig Holberg, other male critics voiced their skepticism in no uncertain terms</span>.</td></tr> <tr><td>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; font-size: smaller;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">*[http://www</span>.<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">womenwriters</span>.<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">nl/index</span>.<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">php/Carme_Font_Paz_%28University_of_Barcelona%29 Carme Font Paz]:<br></span></td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;"> </td></tr> <tr><td>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; font-size: smaller;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">[[‘The Cure </span>of the <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Kingdome’]]: Defending female authorship </span>in [http://neww.huygens.knaw.nl/authors/show/<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">4873 Elizabeth Poole</span>]<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">’s ''A Vision'' (1648)<br></span></td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Her fight for her art and her livelihood was sometimes fierce. A clergyman’s widow for large parts of her life, the imperative to earn money from her writing made her try to defend her copyrights. There were pirate copies attempting to cash in on her success, and she turned on the pirate publishers with entertaining if harsh polemics. Others accused her of plagiarism, claiming that her texts were really written by men, and she responded in counter-attacks in the form of occasional verse. Her fights paid off, and she was awarded royal support in the form of tax release for the rest of her life</span>. </td></tr> <tr><td>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; font-size: smaller;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">*[http://www</span>.<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">womenwriters.nl/index.php/Nina_Geerdink Nina Geerdink]:<br></span></td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;"> </td></tr> <tr><td>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; font-size: smaller;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">[[Female entrepreneurship]]: authors</span>, <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">printers and profits in </span>the <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Dutch republic around 1700<br></span></td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Her publication history and struggles throw light on the possibilities and limitations </span>of <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">women’s entrance into </span>the <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">market of commercial publication around 1700. Her explicit polemics as well as the argument implied </span>in <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">much of her poetry that women could and should write reminds us of similar features in the texts of Behn or </span>[http://neww.huygens.knaw.nl/authors/show/<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">3248 Anne Bradstreet</span>]. <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;"> Her seemingly humble submission to male superiority while aiming kicks at ‘the trouser folk’</span>, <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">demonstrates </span>the <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">urgently felt need to be admitted to the book market</span>. </td></tr> <tr><td>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; font-size: smaller;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">*[http://www</span>.<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">womenwriters.nl/index.php/Suzan_van_Dijk%2C_Utrecht_University Suzan van Dijk]: <br></span></td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; font-size: smaller;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">President of session</span><br></td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> </table>

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<p>New page: <br>__NOEDITSECTION__ == Marie Nedregotten Sørbø == <br><br><br> Fighting for her profession]]: [http://neww.huygens.knaw.nl/authors/show/3638 Dorothe]’s discourse of self-defence<br...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div><br>__NOEDITSECTION__<br /> == Marie Nedregotten Sørbø ==<br /> <br /> <br /> <br><br><br><br /> Fighting for her profession]]: [http://neww.huygens.knaw.nl/authors/show/3638 Dorothe]’s discourse of self-defence<br><br><br /> <br /> Speakers: <br><br /> *[http://www.womenwriters.nl/index.php/Marie_Nedregotten_Sorbo Marie Nedregotten Sørbø]:<br> <br /> [[Fighting for her profession]]: [http://neww.huygens.knaw.nl/authors/show/3638 Dorothe]’s discourse of self-defence<br><br /> *[http://www.womenwriters.nl/index.php/Carme_Font_Paz_%28University_of_Barcelona%29 Carme Font Paz]:<br><br /> [[‘The Cure of the Kingdome’]]: Defending female authorship in [http://neww.huygens.knaw.nl/authors/show/4873 Elizabeth Poole]’s ''A Vision'' (1648)<br><br /> *[http://www.womenwriters.nl/index.php/Nina_Geerdink Nina Geerdink]:<br><br /> [[Female entrepreneurship]]: authors, printers and profits in the Dutch republic around 1700<br><br /> *[http://www.womenwriters.nl/index.php/Suzan_van_Dijk%2C_Utrecht_University Suzan van Dijk]: <br><br /> President of session<br><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> SvD, July 2012<br><br><br /> <br /> <br /> <hr><br /> <br><br /> *Conferences > [http://www.womenwriters.nl/index.php/NEWW_participation_in_other_conferences NEWW participations] > SHARP <br><br></div>

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