Download or read book Women Writers and the Artifacts of Celebrity in the Long Nineteenth Century written by Ann R. Hawkins and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection traces the unique experiences of nineteenth-century women writers within a celebrity culture that was intimately connected to the expansion of print technology and of visual and material culture in the nineteenth century. The contributors examine a range of artifacts, including prefaces, portraits, frontispieces, birthday books and even gossip columns, in this suggestive exploration of how nineteenth-century women writers achieved popular, critical and commercial success.