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1 online resource (234 pages) |
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Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Illustrations -- Preface Women's Studies Group, 1558-1837: Exploring the Lives of Women Since 1987 -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction Carolyn D. Williams -- Chapter One Michelangelo Florio and Lady Jane Grey: A Case Study of a Book Dedication to a Royal Tudor Lady -- Valerie Schutte -- Chapter Two 'The Wine much better then the Bush': Thomas Lodge's Address to the Reader in The Countesse of Lincolnes Nurserie -- Sara Read |
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Chapter Three God-GivenPleasure:Aphrodisiacs, Fertility and Sexual Pleasure in Early Modern England -- Jennifer Evans -- Stilts -- Jacqueline Mulhallen -- Chapter Four Tweaking the Biography of Anne Finch -- Yvonne Noble -- Chapter Five 'For ever shaded by oblivion's veil': Obituarizing Women in the Eighteenth-Century Gentleman's Magazine -- Gillian Williamson -- Chapter Six Female Radicals in Bristol: The Three Marys and Mary Wollstonecraft's 'The Cave of Fancy' -- Marie Mulvey-Roberts -- Chapter Seven A Quest for Female Sexual Agency in the Eighteenth-Century Novel -- Sarah Oliver |
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Chapter Eight Scold, Punish, Pity or Seduce? The Confused Rhetoric of Advice to Unmarried Women (1791) -- Tabitha Kenlon -- Gretchen's Answer -- Tabitha Kenlon -- Chapter Nine Friendships: Commonalities across the Centuries -- Julie Peakman -- Chapter Ten Rivalry, Camaraderie and the Prima Donnas: Elizabeth Billington and Gertrude Mara -- Brianna E. Robertson-Kirkland -- Chapter Eleven Eliza O'Neill and the Art of Acting -- Jacqueline Mulhallen -- Chapter Twelve Better than the Men: The Uses and Abuses of Women's Strength, Speed, Skill and Endurance in the Long Eighteenth Century -- Peter Radford |
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Chapter Thirteen 'Merely butterflies of a season'? The Halls, Ideology and Control in the Early Nineteenth-Century Annuals -- Marion Durnin -- Conclusion Queens of Literature: Royals, Role Models and the Construction of Women's History -- Louise Duckling -- Endnotes -- Further Reading -- Plate section |
| Summary |
Exploring the Lives of Women, 1558-1837' is an engaging and lively collection of original, thought-provoking essays. Its route from Lady Jane Greys nine-day reign to Queen Victorias accession provides ample opportunities to examine complex interactions between gender, rank, and power. Yet the books scope extends far beyond queens: its female cast includes servants, aristocrats, literary women, opera singers, actresses, fallen women, athletes and mine workers. The collection explores themes relating to female power and physical strength; infertility, motherhood, sexuality and exploitation; creativity and celebrity; marriage and female friendship. It draws upon a wide range of primary materials to explore diverse representations of women: illuminating accounts of real womens lives appear alongside fictional portrayals and ideological constructions of femininity. In exploring womens negotiations with patriarchal control, this book demonstrates how the lived experience of women did not always correspond to prescribed social and gendered norms, revealing the rich complexity of their lives. This volume has been published to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Womens Studies Group 1558-1837. The group was formed to promote research into any aspect of womens lives as experienced or depicted within this period. The depth, range and creativity of the essays in this book reflect the myriad interests of its members |
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Women -- Social life and customs
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Women -- Social conditions.
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Women -- History.
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HISTORY -- Women.
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Women.
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Women -- Social conditions.
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Women -- Social life and customs.
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History.
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Electronic book
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Read, Sara
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Author, Roberts Felicity
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Williams, Carolyn D
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| ISBN |
9781526744982 |
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1526744988 |
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