Exploring the lives of women 1558-1837

Exploring the Lives of Women, 1558-1837 is an engaging and lively collection of original, thought-provoking essays. Its route from Lady Jane Grey's nine-day reign to Queen Victoria's accession provides ample opportunities to examine complex interactions between gender, rank, and power. Yet...

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Weitere Verfasser: Duckling, Louise 1971- (HerausgeberIn), Read, Sara 1969- (HerausgeberIn), Roberts, Felicity (HerausgeberIn), Williams, Carolyn D. 1947- (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Barnsley, South Yorkshire Pen & Sword History 2018
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  • Michelangelo Florio and Lady Jane Grey: A Case Study of a Book Dedication to a Royal Tudor Lady Valerie Schutte 'The Wine much better then the Bush': Thomas Lodge's Address to the Reader in The Countesse of Lincolnes Nurserie Sara Read God-Given Pleasure: Aphrodisiacs, Fertility and Sexual Pleasure in Early Modern England Jennifer Evans Stilts Jacqueline Mulhallen Tweaking the Biography of Anne Finch Yvonne Noble 'For ever shaded by oblivion's veil': Obituarizing Women in the Eighteenth-Century Gentleman's Magazine Gillian Williamson Female Radicals in Bristol: The Three Marys and Mary Wollstonecraft's 'The Cave of Fancy' Marie Mulvey-Roberts A Quest for Female Sexual Agency in the Eighteenth-Century Novel Sarah Oliver Scold, Punish, Pity or Seduce? The Confused Rhetoric of Advice to Unmarried Women (1791) Tabilha Kenlon Gretchen's Answer Tabitha Kenlon Friendships: Commonalities across the Centuries Julie Peakman Rivalry, Camaraderie and the Prima Donnas: Elizabeth Billington and Gertrude Mara Brianna E. Robertson-Kirkland Eliza O'Neill and the Art of Acting Jacqueline Mulhallen Better than the Men: The Uses and Abuses of Women's Strength, Speed, Skill and Endurance in the Long Eighteenth Century Peter Radford 'Merely butterflies of a season'? The Halls, Ideology and Control in the Early Nineteenth-Century Annuals Marion Durnin Queens of Literature: Royals, Role Models and the Construction of Women's History Louise Duckling