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List of illustrators List of contributors Preface and acknowledgements Introduction: women, writing and representation Elizabeth Eger, Charlotte Grant, Cliona O'Gallchoir and Penny Warburton Part I. Women in the Public Eye: 1. Coffee-women, The Spectator and the public sphere in the early eighteenth century Markman Ellis 2. Misses, murderesses and magdalens: women in the public eye Caroline Gonda Part II. Consuming Arts: 3. The choice of Hercules: the polite arts and 'female excellence' in eighteenth-century London Charlotte Grant 4. Representing culture: The Nine Living Muses of Great Britain (1779) Elizabeth Eger 5. A moral purchase: femininity, commerce and abolition, 1788-1792 Kate Davies Part III. Learned Ladies: From Bluestockings to Cosmopolitan Intellectuals: 6. Bluestocking feminism Gary Kelly 7. Catharine Macaulay: history, republicanism and the public sphere Susan Wiseman 8. Gender, nation and revolution: Maria Edgeworth and Stephanie-Felicite de Genlis Cliona O Gallchoir 9. Salons, Alps and Cordilleras: Helen Maria Williams, Alex von Humboldt and the discourse of Romantic travel Nigel Leask Part IV. The Female Subject: 10. The most public sphere of all: the family Sylvana Tomaselli 11. Theorising public opinion: Elizabeth Hamilton's model of self, sympathy and society Penny Warburton 12. Intimate connections: scandalous memoirs and epistolary indiscretion Mary Jacobus Bibliography Index.
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