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15 beautiful embroidery projects from the era of Jane Austen. Jane
Austen was as skilful with a needle as she was with a pen. This
unique book from Jennie Batchelor and Alison Larkin showcases
recently discovered 18th century embroidery patterns expertly
repurposed into 15 exciting modern stitching projects. The patterns
and projects are brought to life with glimpses into the world of
Regency women and their domestic lives by lively historical
features, quotes from Jane Austen's letters and novels, enchanting
illustrations and inspirational project photography. The book opens
with an illustrated introduction on historical embroidery. Next
comes the materials and methods section, clearly explaining the key
stitches, as well as providing information on threads, fabrics and
frames. The practical section includes 15 projects for modern
items. The projects are divided into three chapters according to
the item the 18th century pattern was originally intended for with
patterns for different skill levels: Embroidered Clothes: Dressed
to Impress: Projects include Simple Sprig Pattern (Two Ways),
Pencil Case, Clutch Purse, Apron, Housewife. Embroidered
Accessories: How Do You Like My Trimming?: Projects include Napkin
Set, Mobile Phone Pouch, Tablet Sleeve, Jewellery Pouch, Muslin
Shawl. Embroidery for the Home: A 'Nest of Comforts': Projects
include Tea Box Top, Work Bag, Cushion, Sewing Set, Tablecloth. It
is more than likely that Jane herself would have used these very
patterns for her own embroidery, and now, with Jennie and Alison's
help, readers can stitch-a-long with Jane to make a selection of
beautifully embroidered, practical items.
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.
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.
Women's work challenges influential accounts about gender and the
novel by revealing the complex ways in which labour informed the
lives and writing of a number of middling and genteel women authors
publishing between 1750 and 1830. This book provides a particularly
rich, yet largely neglected, seam of texts for exploring the vexed
relationship between gender, work and writing. The four chapters
that follow contain thoroughly contextualised case studies of the
treatment of manual, intellectual and domestic labour in the work
and careers of Sarah Scott, Charlotte Smith, Mary Wollstonecraft
and women applicants to the writer's charity, the Literary Fund. By
making women's work visible in our studies of female-authored
fiction of the period, Batchelor reveals the crucial role that
these women played in articulating debates about the gendered
division of labour, the (in)compatibility of women's domestic and
professional lives and the status and true value of women's work
that shaped eighteenth-century culture as surely as they shape our
own. -- .
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.
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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