SHARP conference 2012
Nina Geerdink organised a session in this conference, entitled:
Economic Imperatives for Women’s Writing
Speakers:
Fighting for her profession: Dorothe’s discourse of self-defence
‘The Cure of the Kingdome’: Defending female authorship in Elizabeth Poole’s A Vision (1648)
Female entrepreneurship: authors, printers and profits in the Dutch republic around 1700
President of session
After the session the decision was taken to issue a call for papers in order to prepare a volume about this question.
This volume will be published in the newly created series "Women Writers in History". It will be entitled: "Mightier than the Spoon is the Pen": Economic Imperatives for Women's Writing before 1800, edited by Nina Geerdink and Carme Font Paz.
SvD, January 2014
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