id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-887 Women's writing (literary category) - Wikipedia .html text/html 5259 785 66 Mary Scott's The Female Advocate: A Poem Occasioned by Reading Mr Duncombe's Feminead (1774) is one of the best known such works in the 18th century, a period that saw a burgeoning of women writers being published. Some scholars, such as Roger Lonsdale, mentions that something of a commonality exists and that "it is not unreasonable to consider" women writers" in some aspects as a special case, given their educational insecurities and the constricted notions of the properly 'feminine' in social and literary behaviour they faced.".[8] Using the term "women's writing" implies, then, the belief that women in some sense constitute a group, however diverse, who share a position of difference based on gender. Gilbert, Sandra M., and Susan Gubar, eds., The New Feminist Criticism: Essays on Women, Literature and Theory. Literary and review journals of women's writing[edit] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-887.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-887.txt