Taking a cue from scholars who have unpacked the historical and literary references in Jane Austen's fiction, and in fact beginning her introduction with comments on Austen's juvenile historical writing, Kasmer surveys British women who crossed gender and genre norms to write history in the long eighteenth century. Features Catharine Macaulay, Sophia Lee, Helen Maria Williams, Jane Porter, Mary Shelley, and Lucy Aikin. Kasmer shows the diversity of women writing history, and by extension, historical fiction, in this interesting and very readable look at how women claimed space in masculine areas of writing and ended up bringing women's sensibilities into relevance in history-telling. Like new. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 2012. Hb. USED. $35.00