Las biografías de escritoras británicas en España: Modelos de conducta a mediados del siglo XIX.
Keywords:
Biographical dictionary, British women writers, women’s studies, literary biography, reception, education, Restoration, eighteenth century, nineteenth centuryAbstract
The Diccionario biográfico universal de mujeres célebres (1844) is of special relevance for studies on the reception of Restoration and eighteenth-century British women writers in Spain, since the biographies of a considerable number of them were published there for the first time. This type of publication answered the need to offer educational works to readers in general, but particularly to a growing female audience. Thus its chief goal was to provide female readers with exemplary models of behaviour. Thus the Diccionario’s biographies of British women writers are analysed within the theoretical framework of women’s studies and literary biography in order to determine whether these authors’ careers met the basic purpose of these texts and to what extent the fact of being women shaped their biographical portrait.
