![]() Scotland, generally, has come late to the recognition of women writers and this is especially the case with regard to the contribution of eighteenth-century women. As Roger Lonsdale has commented, ‘anyone admitting to an interest in eighteenth-century women poets will soon learn to live with the politely sceptical question, “Were there any?”’. Had she considered female poetic aspirations in that period, her findings would have been even more gloomy. ![]() Spender’s essay addressed the neglect of the contribution by women to the developing novel form in the eighteenth century. In an essay contributed to “The Feminist Reader” in 1989, Dale Spender described her university education as ‘an introduction to the great men’ of literature (1): an experience many women would recognise. ![]()
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