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First published in 1759, this novel aims to promote the cause of
the Magdalen House, a charity which sought to rehabilitate
prostitutes by fitting them for a life of virtuous industry. It
challenges long-standing prejudices against prostitutes by
presenting them as victims of inadequate education, male
libertinism and sexual double standards.
Chawton House Library: Women's Travel Writings are multi-volume
editions with full texts reproduced in facsimile with new scholarly
apparatus. The texts have been carefully selected to illustrate
various themes in women's history.
Chawton House Library: Women's Travel Writings are multi-volume
editions with full texts reproduced in facsimile with new scholarly
apparatus. The texts have been carefully selected to illustrate
various themes in women's history.
Chawton House Library: Women's Travel Writings are multi-volume
editions with full texts reproduced in facsimile with new scholarly
apparatus. The texts have been carefully selected to illustrate
various themes in women's history.
Chawton House Library: Women's Travel Writings are multi-volume
editions with full texts reproduced in facsimile with new scholarly
apparatus. The texts have been carefully selected to illustrate
various themes in women's history.
Each of the works in this collection documents the extraodinary
fortunes of women whose real lives read like fiction.
Each of the works in this collection documents the extraodinary
fortunes of women whose real lives read like fiction.
Each of the works in this collection documents the extraodinary
fortunes of women whose real lives read like fiction.
Each of the works in this collection documents the extraodinary
fortunes of women whose real lives read like fiction.
Each of the works in this collection documents the extraodinary
fortunes of women whose real lives read like fiction.
First published in 1759, this novel aims to promote the cause of
the Magdalen House, a charity which sought to rehabilitate
prostitutes by fitting them for a life of virtuous industry. It
challenges long-standing prejudices against prostitutes by
presenting them as victims of inadequate education, male
libertinism and sexual double standards.
This book is about mapping the future of eighteenth-century women's
writing and feminist literary history, in an academic culture that
is not shy of declaring their obsolescence. It asks: what can or
should unite us as scholars devoted to the recovery and study of
women's literary history in an era of big data, on the one hand,
and ever more narrowly defined specialization, on the other?
Leading scholars from the UK and US answer this question in
thought-provoking, cross-disciplinary and often polemical essays.
Contributors attend to the achievements of eighteenth-century women
writers and the scholars who have devoted their lives to them, and
map new directions for the advancement of research in the area.
They collectively argue that eighteenth-century women's literary
history has a future, and that feminism was, and always should be,
at its heart. Featuring a Preface by Isobel Grundy, and a
Postscript by Cora Kaplan.
In December 1840, Charlotte Bronte wrote in a letter to Hartley
Coleridge that she wished 'with all [her] heart' that she 'had been
born in time to contribute to the Lady's magazine'. Nearly two
centuries later, the cultural and literary importance of a monthly
publication that for six decades championed women's reading and
women's writing has yet to be documented. This book offers the
first sustained account of The Lady's Magazine. Across six chapters
devoted to the publication's eclectic and evolving contents, as
well as its readers and contributors, The Lady's Magazine (1770
1832) and the Making of Literary History illuminates the
periodical's achievements and influence, and reveals what this
vital period of literary history looks like when we see it anew
through the lens of one of its most long-lived and popular
publications.
Chawton House Library: Women's Travel Writings are multi-volume
editions with full texts reproduced in facsimile with new scholarly
apparatus. The texts have been carefully selected to illustrate
various themes in women's history.
Provides new perspectives on women's print media in the long
eighteenth centuryThis innovative volume presents for the first
time collective expertise on women's magazines and periodicals of
the long eighteenth century. While this period witnessed the birth
of modern periodical culture and its ability to shape aspects of
society from the popular to the political, most studies have
traditionally obscured the very active role women's voices and
women readers played in shaping the periodicals that in turn shaped
Britain. The 30 essays here demonstrate the importance of
periodicals to women, the importance of women to periodicals, and,
crucially, they correct the destructive misconception that the more
canonized periodicals and popular magazines were enemy or
discontinuous forms. This collection shows how both periodicals and
women drove debates on politics, education, theatre, celebrity,
social practice, popular reading and everyday life itself.Divided
into 6 thematic parts, the book uses innovative methodologies for
historical periodical studies, thereby mapping new directions in
eighteenth-century and Romantic studies, women's writing as well as
media and cultural history. While our period witnessed the birth of
modern periodical culture, most studies have obscured the active
role women's voices and women readers played in shaping the
periodicals that in turn shaped Britain.Key FeaturesPresents the
first major study of the key role women played as authors, editors,
and readers of periodicals and magazines in the long eighteenth
centuryFeatures cutting-edge and interdisciplinary research by
senior and early career specialists in the fields of periodical
studies, material culture studies, theatre history, and cultural
historyIn its exposition of innovative methodologies for historical
periodical studies, the book maps new directions in
eighteenth-century and Romantic studies, women's writing, and media
and cultural historyMoves British women's print media to the centre
of long eighteenth-century print culture
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