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    The Scriblerian Project

    In ‘Satturday’, the last of a set of Town Eclogues that the young Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762) composed in 1715–16, the treatment of the poem’s central character seems more satirical than sympathetic. Fl...

    Jill Campbell in The History of British Women’s Writing, 1690–1750 (2010)

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    Scribal and Print Publication

    ‘Well, but the joy to see my works in print!’ wrote Mary Jones to her friend, Lady Bowyer, ‘Myself too pictured in a mezzotint’, droll self-imaginings that are countered elsewhere in the ‘Epistle to Lady Bowye...

    Kathryn R. King in The History of British Women’s Writing, 1690–1750 (2010)

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    The History of British Women’s Writing, 1750–1830

    Jacqueline M. Labbe in The History of British Women’s Writing (2010)

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    The Periodical

    From the literary periodical’s inception in the last decade of the seventeenth century, women readers — and attention to female behaviour, experiences, and concerns — formed an integral part of the development...

    Shawn Lisa Maurer in The History of British Women’s Writing, 1690–1750 (2010)

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    Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson and the First Year of the War with France

    In April 1797 Charlotte Smith wrote to her publisher urging him to restrict the circulation of her engraved portrait, intended for the forthcoming edition of her Elegiac Sonnets.1 She asked him to ‘take such prec...

    Harriet Guest in The History of British Women’s Writing, 1750–1830 (2010)

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    Religious Love

    By the last decade of the seventeenth century, religious matters had been largely settled in England: a measure of toleration had been allowed to dissenters and Roman Catholics, with freedom of worship for dis...

    Jane Shaw in The History of British Women’s Writing, 1690–1750 (2010)

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    Women and Print Culture, 1750–1830

    When asked to give a lecture on ‘women and fiction’ in 1928, Virginia Woolf admitted to being confounded at the possibilities: ‘Women and fiction might mean… women and what they are like; or it might mean wome...

    Michelle Levy in The History of British Women’s Writing, 1750–1830 (2010)

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    Joanna Baillie’s Emblematic Theatre

    Joanna Baillie, best known as the author of the Series of Plays: in which it is attempted to delineate the stronger passions of the mind, each passion being the subject of a tragedy and a comedy (1798–1812), was ...

    Betsy Bolton in The History of British Women’s Writing, 1750–1830 (2010)

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    The Love of Friendship

    This letter, from Mary Jones to a female friend, demonstrates the lighthearted wit and inventiveness, even whimsicality, in the most entertaining writing between women of this period. It adopts the slightly mo...

    Moyra Haslett in The History of British Women’s Writing, 1690–1750 (2010)

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    Shrews in Pamphlets and Plays

    It is a commonplace that to read The Taming of the Shrew followed by Much Ado about Nothing is to witness the same author examining gender relationships in wholly different ways. According to one line of argument...

    Anna Bayman, George Southcombe in Gender and Power in Shrew-Taming Narratives, 1500–1700 (2010)

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    Bluestocking Women and the Negotiation of Oral, Manuscript, and Print Cultures

    As the editor of this volume has noted, one of the tasks facing twenty-first-century historians of women’s writing is that of demonstrating ‘how and in what ways, rather than whether, women’s writing is key to...

    Betty A. Schellenberg in The History of British Women’s Writing, 1750–1830 (2010)

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    Jane Austen’s Critical Response to Women’s Writing: ‘a good spot for fault-finding’

    Jane Austen’s lifetime (1775–1817) coincided with the first serious attempts by literary critics to produce a canon of the novel. In the year before Austen’s birth, the House of Lords’ decision in Donaldson v Bec...

    Olivia Murphy in The History of British Women’s Writing, 1750–1830 (2010)

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    Engendering Shrews: Medieval to Early Modern

    When Petruchio humiliates Katherine on their wedding day, her father Baptista identifies the feminine bearing of the central term in Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew (1623): ‘[S]uch an injury would vex a saint, ...

    Holly A. Crocker in Gender and Power in Shrew-Taming Narratives, 1500–1700 (2010)

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    Anglophone Welsh Women’s Poetry 1750–84: Jane Cave and Anne Penny

    Feminist literary history has now reached that stage of maturity which includes the capacity not only to reflect, but also to move forward. Since the first outpouring of scholarship on eighteenth-century women...

    Sarah Prescott in The History of British Women’s Writing, 1750–1830 (2010)

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    Influence, Anxiety, and Erasure in Women’s Writing: Romantic becomes Victorian

    When in 1828 Felicia Hemans published Records of Woman, with Other Poems, she concluded the first section, the ‘Records’, with the only poem in that section that documents the life (and death) of a contemporary w...

    Stephen C. Behrendt in The History of British Women’s Writing, 1750–1830 (2010)

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    The Shrew as Editor/Editing Shrews

    I recently had the somewhat dubious pleasure of watching a low-budget horror film from 1959 that is now considered a minor classic: The Killer Shrews. The film’s hero is a daring young sailor who lands on an isla...

    Leah S. Marcus in Gender and Power in Shrew-Taming Narratives, 1500–1700 (2010)

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    The Gendered Stomach in The Taming of the Shrew

    In the horror film called The Killer Shrews (1959) mentioned by Leah Marcus in her essay appearing in this collection, the film’s scientists use shrews in studies of population control, before, that is, the shrew...

    Jan Purnis in Gender and Power in Shrew-Taming Narratives, 1500–1700 (2010)

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    Picturing Benevolence against the Commercial Cry, 1750–98: Or, Sarah Fielding and the Secret Causes of Romanticism

    For most of the eighteenth century, the tenderest emotions were frequently accompanied by the clinking of purses. By the century’s end, the connection between money and feeling had become more distant, more hi...

    Donna Landry in The History of British Women’s Writing, 1750–1830 (2010)

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    Unknown Shrews: Three Transformations of The/A Shrew

    Although it is well known that English strolling players achieved quite some success during their travels on the continent, the impact of their mediation between theatrical cultures has been systematically dow...

    Helmer J. Helmers in Gender and Power in Shrew-Taming Narratives, 1500–1700 (2010)

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    Afterword: ‘Thus have I politicly ended my reign’

    It would seem that to edit a play gives one some kind of long-term investment in it. I edited The Taming of the Shrew as long ago as 1984, though Cambridge University Press allowed me to update my edition in 2003...

    Ann Thompson in Gender and Power in Shrew-Taming Narratives, 1500–1700 (2010)

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