Reading Purposes and Writing Strategies of British Women Novelists in the 19th Century

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Abstract: In the 19^th century, British women novelists' readings had much to do with the historical and cultural background, the context of writing and criticism, and their personal identities and experiences at that time. The information about their readings, gleaned from their biographies, diaries, letters, memoirs, and the prefaces to and actual texts of their novels may help us learn about their reading horizons, knowledge structures, and reading purposes. From this perspective, we could find out that women novelists' reading horizons affected, to some extent, the choice of their subjects and their writing purposes, controlled the construction of their novels' intertextuality, and highlighted the intellectual power and artistic pursuit in women's novel writing. Thus, it is through reading that women novelists were able to connect their novel writing with the roots of the British literary tradition and became an important component of the British literature.

Key words: 19^th Century British novel, women novelists, reading, writing strategies, intertextuality

Jin Qiong. Reading Purposes and Writing Strategies of British Women Novelists in the 19^th Century[J]. Foreign Literature Studies, 2022, 44(1): 151-161.

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