Katherine Binhammer, University of Alberta
Vol. 44, No. 1 (Spring 2025)

ABSTRACT: Recently, scholars have begun to question the centrality of the novel within the history of women’s writing, and this essay participates in that rethinking. It includes search results from Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present and existing bibliographic and biographical research to demonstrate that the novel does not hold as influential a place in the history of women’s writing pre-1790 as has been thought.