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Introduction: “building on public approbation”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 November 2009

Betty A. Schellenberg
Betty A. Schellenberg
Affiliation:
Simon Fraser University, British Columbia
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I am much more hurt on your account than my own at your losing by this book; I hope it may yet sell: but if not, I have no judgment or St. Forlaix will make you amends; if I tho't it woud not I should be very unhappy.

I am much obligd to your delicacy in not telling me this sooner, but you need never make any ceremony with me; for I am one who can hear truth tho' it makes against me.

In any future publication I will take care you shall not lose; I will share the profit or loss of the history; & if, in any other, you disapprove that mode, we will not fix the price till what I write has been six months publish'd. I have thots of writing for the theatre, after the hist. is finishd; but it is difficult to get things done: if I succeed that way, I shall give up all others, as I like it best; in that case you know the price is always fix'd.

(Frances Brooke to James Dodsley, 17??)

BEYOND FEMINIST LITERARY HISTORY?

Eschewing ceremony, able to hear the truth, negotiating future terms, liking the playwright's chances for success best – the writer of this 1769 letter to James Dodsley is clearly a competent literary professional, an economic agent confidently offering authorial expertise and flexibility as the basis for a durable and productive collaboration with this prominent bookseller.

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The Professionalization of Women Writers in Eighteenth-Century Britain , pp. 1 - 22
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2005

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