Marriage, Collaboration, and the Literary Mass Market in the English-Speaking World, c. 1870–1939.
This article offers the first comprehensive history of Anglo-American married couples who co-published together, c. 1870–1939. It departs from the tendency to solely focus on the detrimental impact of marriage on women's professional lives and the framing of middle-class women as simply either marry...
| Publicado en: | Historical Journal Vol. 68; no. 4; pp. 788 - 813 |
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Cambridge University Press
Sep2025
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