TY - BOOK AU - Freeman,Kathryn S. TI - British women writers and the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1785-1835: re-orienting Anglo-India SN - 9781472430885 (hbk) U1 - 820.99287 PY - 2014/// CY - England PB - Ashgate KW - English literature KW - Women authors KW - History and criticism KW - Authorship KW - Sex differences KW - History KW - Orientalism in literature N1 - The Asiatic Society of Bengal: "beyond the stretch of labouring thought sublime" -- "Out of that narrow and contracted path": creativity and authority in Elizabeth Hamilton's translations of the letters of a Hindoo rajah -- Confronting sacrrifice, resisting the sentimental: sensibility, imperialism, and romantic masculinity in the Anglo-Indian novels of Phebe Gibbes and Sidney Owenson -- Female authorship in the Anglo-Indian meta-drama of Mariana Starke's The sword of peace (1788) and The widow of Malabar (1791) -- Epilogue: Lost and found in translation: re-orienting the revolutionary period through women writers in early Anglo-India ER -