Heroines and Local Girls: The Transnational Emergence of Women's Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century - Paperbackby Pamela L. Cheek (Author) Over the course of the long eighteenth century, a network of some fifty women writers, working in French, English, Dutch, and German, staked out a lasting position in the European literary field. These writers were multilingual and lived for many years outside of their countries of origin, translated and borrowed from each others' works, attended literary circles and salons, and fashioned a transnational women's literature