See clarifications above. I went back and found the information in the front of the B&N Classics paperback. Sarah Juliette Sasson did the timeline. It was done in 2005 or thereabouts. Only two women writers besides Orczy are mentioned - Woolfe and Eliot, but a lot of famous and not so famous male writers are listed. It's from roughly 1865 -1947. It's the historical timeline of the Baroness's life (she died in 1947), but what is odd - is Sasson only felt the need to mention two female writers in it - Eliot and Woolfe. But she notes when Rudyard Kipling is born, when various operas are done, when Sherlock Holmes was published, Mark Twain, Lewis Carrol published Alice in Wonderland...and so on.
If I were going by this timeline, I'd think not many women wrote during that period.
Per the back of the book: Sarah Juliette Sasson earned a Ph.D in Comparative Literature from Columbia University, and is a lecturer there in the Department of French and Romance Philology. She is the managing editor of the Romanic Review, a journal devoted to Romance literatures. [This information is copied word for word from the back of the paperback.]
[ETA: Hmmm, this kind of furthers my complaint about the United States East Coast Schools increasingly sexist take on the literary canon?]
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Date: 2024-01-30 01:02 am (UTC)If I were going by this timeline, I'd think not many women wrote during that period.
Per the back of the book: Sarah Juliette Sasson earned a Ph.D in Comparative Literature from Columbia University, and is a lecturer there in the Department of French and Romance Philology. She is the managing editor of the Romanic Review, a journal devoted to Romance literatures. [This information is copied word for word from the back of the paperback.]
[ETA: Hmmm, this kind of furthers my complaint about the United States East Coast Schools increasingly sexist take on the literary canon?]