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Introduction: Gender and Women’s History
Gill Perry, Anne Laurence, Joan Bellamy
Chapter 1: Musing On Muses: Representing The Actress as ‘Artist’ in British Art of the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
Gill Perry
Chapter 2: Distant Prospects and Smaller Circles: Questions of Authority in Maria Edgeworth’s Irish Writings
Madeline Thompson
Chapter 3: Scholarship and Sensibility: Anna Jameson and Sydney Morgan in Siren Land
Chloe Chard
Chapter 4: Mary Shelley as Editor of the Poems of Percy Shelley
Richard Allen
Chapter 5: Women and Education in Nineteenth Century England
Rosemary O’Day
Chapter 6:Mary Cowden Clarke’s Labours of Love
Cicely Palser Havely
Chapter 7: Women Historians and Documentary Research: Lucy Aikin, Agnes Strickland, Mary Anne Everett Green, and Lucy Toulmin Smith
Anne Laurence
Chapter 8:Margaret Oliphant, “Mightier than the mightiest of her sex.”
Joan Bellamy
Chapter 9: ‘Hints on Household Taste’ and ‘The Art of Decoration’: Authors, Their Audience and Gender in Interior Design
Colin Cunningham
Chapter 10: Women, Translation and Empowerment
Lorna Hardwick
Chapter 11: ‘I Love My Sex’: Two Late-Victorian Pulpit Women
Susan Mumm
Postscript
Bibliography
Biographies