| Description |
xii, 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-312) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: women, writing and representation / Elizabeth Eger, [et.al]. -- Coffee-women, The spectator and the public sphere in the early eighteenth century / Markman Ellis. -- Misses, murderesses and magdalens: women in the public eye / Caroline Gonda. -- The choice of Hercules: the polite arts and 'female excellence' in eighteenth-century London / Charlotte Grant. -- Representing culture: The nine living muses of Great Britain (1779) / Elizabeth Eger. -- A moral purchase: femininity, commerce and abolition, 1788-1792 / Kate Davies. -- Bluestocking feminism / Gary Kelly. -- Catharine Macaulay: history, republicanism and the public sphere / Susan Wiseman. -- Gender, nation and revolution : Maria Edgeworth and Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis / Cliona Ó Gallchoir. -- Salons, alps and cordilleras: Helen Maria Williams, Alex von Humboldt and the discourse of romantic travel / Nigel Leask. -- The most public sphere of all : the family / Sylvana Tomaselli. -- Theorising public opinion: Elizabeth Hamilton's model of self, sympathy and society / Penny Warburton. -- Intimate connections: scandalous memoirs and epistolary indiscretion / Mary Jacobus. |
| Subject |
Women in public life -- Great Britain -- History.
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Women in public life. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
| Added Author |
Eger, Elizabeth.
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| ISBN |
0521771064 |
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