Professional writing
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| "[[Women's writing (literary category)|Women were often the first professional writer]]s and as [[Nina Baym]] and [[Resa Dudovitz]] have ascertained, bestsellers have often been written by women writers. Yet women they have been [[patriarchally]] [[Social invisibility|erased]] from [[literary histories]]."--Sholem Stein | "[[Women's writing (literary category)|Women were often the first professional writer]]s and as [[Nina Baym]] and [[Resa Dudovitz]] have ascertained, bestsellers have often been written by women writers. Yet women they have been [[patriarchally]] [[Social invisibility|erased]] from [[literary histories]]."--Sholem Stein | ||
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| - | "Alexander Pope Pope has long been regarded as the first “[[professional writer|professional writer]]” in England able to make a living by his pen, without depending on the support of [[aristocratic patronage]]."--''[[Literary Patronage in England, 1650-1800]]'' (1996) Dustin Griffin | + | "[[Alexander Pope|Pope]] has long been regarded as the first “[[professional writer|professional writer]]” in England able to make a living by his pen, without depending on the support of [[aristocratic patronage]]."--''[[Literary Patronage in England, 1650-1800]]'' (1996) Dustin Griffin |
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| - | [[Image:Charles Baudelaire.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Charles Baudelaire by Étienne Carjat]] (ca. 1863)]] | + | A '''professional writer''' is a [[writer]] who has been paid for work that they have written. One can notice a sharpening of terms, in the latter part of the [[nineteenth century]]. Just as the coinage [[scientist]] would come to mean a professional, the ''[[man of letters]]'' would more often be assumed to be a [[Professional writing|professional writer]], perhaps having the breadth of a [[journalist]] or [[essayist]], but not necessarily with the ''engagement'' of the intellectual. |
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| - | A '''professional writer''' is someone who has been paid for work that they have written. One can notice a sharpening of terms, in the latter part of the [[nineteenth century]]. Just as the coinage [[scientist]] would come to mean a professional, the ''[[man of letters]]'' would more often be assumed to be a [[Professional writing|professional writer]], perhaps having the breadth of a [[journalist]] or [[essayist]], but not necessarily with the ''engagement'' of the intellectual. | + | |
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| + | *[[Art and money]] | ||
| *[[Copyright]] | *[[Copyright]] | ||
| *[[Professional]] | *[[Professional]] | ||
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"Women were often the first professional writers and as Nina Baym and Resa Dudovitz have ascertained, bestsellers have often been written by women writers. Yet women they have been patriarchally erased from literary histories."--Sholem Stein "Pope has long been regarded as the first “professional writer” in England able to make a living by his pen, without depending on the support of aristocratic patronage."--Literary Patronage in England, 1650-1800 (1996) Dustin Griffin |
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A professional writer is a writer who has been paid for work that they have written. One can notice a sharpening of terms, in the latter part of the nineteenth century. Just as the coinage scientist would come to mean a professional, the man of letters would more often be assumed to be a professional writer, perhaps having the breadth of a journalist or essayist, but not necessarily with the engagement of the intellectual.
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