Deze auteur duikt in de wereld van het achttiende-eeuwse vrouwenschrijven en de mode, waarbij ze vroege tijdschriften en de ingewikkelde verbinding tussen kleding, naaiwerk en literaire creatie onderzoekt. Haar onderzoek brengt vaak over het hoofd geziene vrouwelijke stemmen en de culturele landschappen waarin zij leefden aan het licht. Door middel van haar publicaties en lezingen belicht ze minder bekende facetten van de literaire geschiedenis voor een breder publiek. Ze heeft een bijzondere interesse in de blijvende erfenis van bepaalde invloedrijke schrijfsters en hun impact op latere literaire tradities.
Beautiful antique embroidery patterns, re-purposed into 15 modern sewing projects, are complemented by lively historical features, quotes from Jane Austen's letters and novels, enchanting illustrations, clear instructions, and inspirational project photography.
Focusing on the intersection of gender and literature, this book explores how the labor experiences of middling and genteel women authors from 1750 to 1830 shaped their lives and writings. It critiques dominant narratives about gender in the novel, highlighting the nuanced roles that women's work played in their literary contributions and social contexts during this period.
Women's work challenges influential accounts about gender and the novel by revealing the complex ways in which labour (as material reality and philosophical concept) shaped the lives and writings of a number of women authors working in the second half of the long eighteenth century -- .
The first major study of one of the most influential periodicals of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries In December 1840, Charlotte Brontë wrote in a letter to Hartley Coleridge that she wished 'with all [her] heart' that she 'had been born in time to contribute to the Lady's magazine'. Nearly two centuries later, the cultural and literary importance of a monthly publication that for six decades championed women's reading and women's writing has yet to be documented. This book offers the first sustained account of The Lady's Magazine. Across six chapters devoted to the publication's eclectic and evolving contents, as well as its readers and contributors, The Lady's Magazine (1770-1832) and the Making of Literary History illuminates the periodical's achievements and influence, and reveals what this vital period of literary history looks like when we see it anew through the lens of one of its most long-lived and popular publications. Jennie Batchelor is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of Kent.