Professional writing
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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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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