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Acknowledgements 1. Introducing Romantic sociability Gillian Russell and Clara Tuite 2. Sociability and the international republican conversation Margaret C. Jacob 3. 'Equality and no king': sociability and sedition the case of John Frost James Epstein 4. Amiable and radical sociability: Anna Barbauld's 'free familiar conversation' Anne Janowitz 5. Firebrands, letters and flowers: Mrs. Barbauld and the Priestleys Deirdre Coleman 6. 'Reciprocal expressions of kindness': Robert Merry, the Della Cruscans, and the limits of Romantic sociability Jon Mee 7. Spouters of washerwomen: the sociability of Romantic lecturing Gillian Russell 8. Hazlitt and the sociability of theatre Julie A. Carlson 9. 'Obliged to make this sort of deposit of our minds': William Godwin and the sociable contract of writing Judith Barbour 10. The Byronic woman: Anne Lister's style, sociability and sexuality Clara Tuite 11. Counter publics: shopping and women's sociability Deidre Shauna Lynch Bibliography Index.

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