Exploring the lives of women 1558-1837 / principal editors: Louise Duckling, Sara Read, Felicity Roberts, Carolyn D. Williams.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Duckling, Louise, 1971- editor.

Read, Sara, 1969- editor.

Roberts, Felicity, editor.

Williams, Carolyn D., 1947- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--History.

Women.

History.

Women--Social conditions--History.

Women--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 224 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Exploring the lives of women fifteen fifty-eight-eighteen seventy-seven

Exploring the lives of women fifteen fifty to eight-eighteen seventy-seven

Place of Publication:

Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword History, 2018.

Summary:

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 the book's scope extends far beyond queens: its female cast includes servants, aristocrats, literary women, opera singers, actresses, fallen women, athletes and mine workers. The collection explores themes relating to female power and physical strength; infertility, motherhood, sexuality and exploitation; creativity and celebrity; marriage and female friendship. It draws upon a wide range of primary materials to explore diverse representations of women: illuminating accounts of real women's lives appear alongside fictional portrayals and ideological constructions of femininity. In exploring women's negotiations with patriarchal control, this book demonstrates how the lived experience of women did not always correspond to prescribed social and gendered norms, revealing the rich complexity of their lives. This volume has been published to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Women's Studies Group 1558-1837. The group was formed to promote research into any aspect of women's lives as experienced or depicted within this period. The depth, range and creativity of the essays in this book reflect the myriad interests of its members.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781526744975

152674497X

9781526751393

1526751399

OCLC:

1083260921

Publisher Number:

99979179746