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Title:

Woman to woman : female negotiations during the long eighteenth century / edited by Carolyn D. Williams, Angela Escott, and Louise Duckling.

Publisher:

University of Delaware Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

258 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Feminism and literature--England--History--18th century.
Women and the military--England--History--18th century.
Women and literature--England--History--18th century.
English literature--18th century--History and criticism

Other Authors:

Williams, Carolyn D., 1947-
Escott, Angela, 1949-
Duckling, Louise, 1971-
Waldron, Mary

Notes:

The collection is in honor of Mary Waldron, a founder 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. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Part I: Family alliances. Childhood and child rearing in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century fiction : a quiet revolution / Mary Waldron ; Revolutionary mothers and revolting daughters : Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, Anna Wheeler and Rosina Bulwer Lytton / Joanna Goldsworthy and Marie Mulvey-Roberts ; Sisters : ambition and compliance : the case of Mary and Agnes Berry and Joanna and Agnes Baillie / Judith Bailey Slagle -- Part II: Friends and companions. A woman of extraordinary merit : Catherine Bovey of Flaxley Abbey, Gloucestershire / Jessica Munns and Penny Richards ; The limits of sympathy : The histories of some of the penitents in the Magdalen-House (1760) / Jennie Batchelor ; Changes in roles and relationships : multiauthored epistles from the Aberdeen Quaker Women's Meeting / Betty Hagglund ; Elizabeth Carter and modes of knowledge / Judith Hawley -- Part III: Adventurous women. "The best freind in the world" : the relationship between Emma Hamilton and Queen Maria Carolina of Naples / Julie Peakman ; Founding mothers : religious communities in New France / Tanis Hinchcliffe ; "On Boadicea think!" : in search of a female army / Carolyn D. Williams.

ISBN:

0874130883 (alk. paper)
9780874130881 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)437054141

LCCN:

2009037665

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)