Woman to Woman Female Negotiations During the Long Eighteenth Century

by Williams, Carolyn D.; Escott, Angela; Duckling, Louise

• ISBN13: 9781611491432
• ISBN10: 1611491436
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-06-01
• Publisher: University of Delaware Press

Summary

Woman to Woman: Female Negotiations During the Long Eighteenth Century is a cross-disciplinary collection of essays drawing on hitherto unexplored archival material, showing how collaboration enabled eighteenth-century women to intervene in military and political affairs, achieve literary success, experience religious fulfilment, and engage in philanthropic projects. Communal female activity might be founded on kinship, shared religious experience, or common hardship. This study covers women from a very wide range of social backgrounds, including queens, aristocrats and country gentlewomen, daughters of clergymen and labourers, and prostitutes. The collection is in honor of Mary Waldron, a founding member of the Women's Studies Group, whose distinguished scholarship is exemplified in the first chapter, and whose generous encouragement of other specialists in feminist studies in the long eighteenth century is described in Isobel Grundy's Preface.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 9
Acknowledgments	p. 15
Introduction	p. 19
Family Alliances
Childhood and Child Rearing in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Fiction: a Quiet Revolution	p. 49
Revolutionary Mothers and Revolting Daughters: Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, Anna Wheeler and Rosina Bulwer Lytton	p. 63
Sisters-Ambition and Compliance: The Case of Mary and Agnes Berry and Joanna and Agnes Baillie	p. 79
Friends and Companions
A Woman of Extraordinary Merit: Catherine Bovey of Flaxley Abbey, Gloucestershire	p. 101
The Limits of Sympathy: The Histories of Some of the Penitents in the Magdalen-House (1760)	p. 117
Changes in Roles and Relationships: Multiauthored Epistles from the Aberdeen Quaker Women's Meeting	p. 137
Elizabeth Carter and Modes of Knowledge	p. 157
Adventurous Women
ôThe best friend in the worldö: The Relationship between Emma Hamilton and Queen Maria Carolina of Naples	p. 173
Founding Mothers: Religious Communities in New France	p. 190
ôOn Boadicea think!ö: In Search of a Female Army	p. 204
Bibliography	p. 225
Notes on Contributors	p. 245
Index	p. 248
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