Women, scholarship and criticism c.17901900

Gender and knowledge

Edited by Joan Bellamy, Anne Laurence, Gill Perry

Publication date:

01 February 2001

Length of book:

264 pages

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Dimensions:

234x156mm

ISBN-13: 9780719057205

BOOK DESCRIPTION
TABLE OF CONTENTS

Brings together the varied artistic, critical and cultural productions by women scholars, critics and artists between 1790-1900, many of whom are little known in the canonical histories of the period. Questions the concepts of 'scholarship', 'criticism' and 'artist' across the different disciplines. Women discussed include authors (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Sydney Morgan and Anna Jameson) actresses ( Elizabeth Siddons, Dorothy Jordan, and Mary Robinson) critics ( Margaret Oliphant and Mary Cowden Clarke) historians (Agnes Strickland, Lucy Aikin, Mary Anne Everett Green, Elizabeth Cooper and Lucy Toulmin Smith) as well as the writers and readers of Women's magazines, educationalists and translators. Makes a significant and original contribution to the development of gender studies by extending the frontiers of existing knowledge and research.

Introduction: Gender and Women’s History
Gill Perry, Anne Laurence, Joan Bellamy

Chapter 1: Musing On Muses: Representing The Actress as ‘Artist’ in British Art of the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
Gill Perry

Chapter 2: Distant Prospects and Smaller Circles: Questions of Authority in Maria Edgeworth’s Irish Writings
Madeline Thompson

Chapter 3: Scholarship and Sensibility: Anna Jameson and Sydney Morgan in Siren Land
Chloe Chard

Chapter 4: Mary Shelley as Editor of the Poems of Percy Shelley
Richard Allen

Chapter 5: Women and Education in Nineteenth Century England
Rosemary O’Day

Chapter 6:Mary Cowden Clarke’s Labours of Love
Cicely Palser Havely

Chapter 7: Women Historians and Documentary Research: Lucy Aikin, Agnes Strickland, Mary Anne Everett Green, and Lucy Toulmin Smith
Anne Laurence

Chapter 8:Margaret Oliphant, “Mightier than the mightiest of her sex.”
Joan Bellamy

Chapter 9: ‘Hints on Household Taste’ and ‘The Art of Decoration’: Authors, Their Audience and Gender in Interior Design
Colin Cunningham

Chapter 10: Women, Translation and Empowerment
Lorna Hardwick

Chapter 11: ‘I Love My Sex’: Two Late-Victorian Pulpit Women
Susan Mumm

Postscript
Bibliography
Biographies