SOURCE: "The Female Wits: Women Writers of the Restoration and the Early Eighteenth Century," in The Sign of Angellica: Women, Writing and Fiction, 1660-1800, Columbia University Press, 1989, pp. 36-51.
In the following excerpt, Todd surveys the primary female novelists of the genre's early development, as well as the major styles adopted by those pioneers.
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