Eighteenth-Century Women

Studies in their Lives, Work, and Culture

Editor

Linda V. Troost (Washington & Jefferson College)

Drawing by Moira Macgregor for
The Friends of Fashion, Museum of London

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY WOMEN, a hardcover serial publication from AMS Press, publishes articles and book reviews in the fields of literary, biographical, bibliographical, social, and cultural history. It focuses on women in Great Britain, Europe, the Americas, and the rest of the world during the "long" eighteenth century, extending roughly from the restoration of the English monarchy (1660) to the death of Jane Austen (1817).

The journal aims to be a record of women's lives and accomplishments, not only as essayists, novelists, playwrights, poets, translators, pamphleteers, letter-writers, and journalists, but also as mothers, wives, daughters, queens, princesses, reformers, business owners, educators, socialites, ladies of the manor, ladies of the night, intellectuals, natural philosophers, travelers, theater managers, actresses, musicians, artists, artisans, consumers, arbiters of taste, and promoters of fads, fashions, and morals.

Well researched, clearly written, and jargon-free original essays are solicited (5000 to 8000 words). Either Chicago or MLA style is acceptable for submission; the journal style for publication, however, is MLA.

VOLUME 6 (November 2011)

• Emily Bowles: Faults of a female pen? Reading the Traces of Embodiment, Authority, and Misogyny in Margaret Cavendish’s Handwritten Words
• Charles Haskell Hinnant: Pleasure and Virtue: The Construction of Female Beauty in the Restoration Court Portrait
• Anne F. Widmayer: Aphra Behn’s Dramatic Techniques in Oroonoko: Characterizing the “Other”
• Earla Wilputte: Eliza Haywood’s Poems on Several Occasions: Aaron Hill, Writing, and the Sublime
• Nicolle Jordan: From Pastoral to Georgic: Modes of Negotiating Social Mobility in Elizabeth Montagu’s Correspondence
• Heidi Pierce: Revising Eighteenth-Century Education: Sarah Scott’s Sir George Ellison
• Marijn S. Kaplan: Marriage as Feminist Utopia: Riccoboni’s “Lettre de Madame la marquise d’Artigues à sa soeur” (1785)
• Judith W. Fisher: Through Others’ Eyes: Representations of Actresses in Eighteenth-Century Drama
• Whitney Helms: Appropriating Maternal Authority and Politicizing the Domestic: Anna Barbauld and Children’s Literature
• Kathryn Ready: Mind versus Matter: Anna Barbauld and the “Kindred Arts” of Painting and Poetry
• Isabelle C. DeMarte: Woman, Aspiring Playwright, Litigating Proprietor, and Widow: The Figures of Speech in Olympe de Gouges’s Preface to Le mariage inattendu de Chérubin
• Kimi Cunningham Grant: The Language of Possession, the Possession of Language: Rhetoric and Seduction in Caroline Lamb’s Glenarvon

VOLUME 5 (November 2008)

• Ann Campbell: Punitive Subplots and Clandestine Marriage in Eliza Haywood’s The History of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy
• Logan Connors: Muting the Heroine—Political and Sexual Politics in Marivaux’s Triomphe de l’amour and Diderot’s Fils naturel
• Megan Conway: Cruel Fortune and Republican Fervor: Olympe de Gouges’s L’Entrée de Dumouriez à Bruxelles
• Julia Dabbs: Anecdotal Insights: Changing Perceptions of Italian Women Artists in Eighteenth-Century Life-Stories
• Barbara Day-Hickman: Strategies for Political Influence during the French Consulate: The Determination of Germaine de Staël and the Discretion of French Physiocrat Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours
• Laura Engel: Outrageous Performances: Mary Wells, Theatricality, and Madness
• Marilyn Francus: Stepmommy Dearest? The Burneys and the Construction of Stepmotherhood
• Madelyn Gutwirth: Catherine de Medici’s Legacy: Theater, Politics, and Women as Actors in the French Revolution
• Haskell Hinnant: “If Folly Grows Romantic”: Allegorical Portraiture and the Restoration Court Beauty
• Sandro Jung: Spirituality in Radcliffe’s The Italian
• Pam Lieske: Magdalen House Narratives in Frances Sheridan’s Life and Memoirs of Sidney Bidulph

VOLUME 4 (September 2006)

• Linda Zionkowski: “Mother Gin, Motherhood, and the Problem of Domestic Order”
• Earla Wilputte: “Harridans and Heroes: Female Revenge and the Masculine Duel in Jane Barker, Delarivier Manley and Eliza Haywood”
• Kathryn Prince: “The English and American Editions of Elizabeth Hanson’s Captivity Narrative”
• Chantel Lavoie: “The Anthology and the Anachronisms: Aphra Behn in Poems by Eminent Ladies”
• Anna Atkinson: “Sarah Fielding’s The History of Ophelia: ‘Liberty of Thought’ and the Problem with Paradise”
• Scott Paul Gordon: “Quixotic Perception in Sophia Lee’s The Recess”
• Tobi Kozakewich: “Evelina’s Simple Story: Sentimentality in Burney’s and Inchbald’s First Novels”
• Kathryn Ready: “From the Stage to the Closet: Hannah More’s Abandonment of Theater”
• Bärbel Czennia: “Daring Eccentrics: Popular Biography and Female Deviance in the Later Eighteenth Century”
• Jenny Davidson: “Professional Education and Female Accomplishments: Gender and Education in Maria Edgeworth’s Patronage”
• Barbara Brandon Schnorrenberg: “Mrs. Montagu and the Architects”
• Betty Rizzo: “The Frances Greville Letters: An Edition, Part 1”
  

VOLUME 3 (November 2003)

• Cami Agan: “Catherine Clive’s Media Relations: The Stage as Media and the Page as Performance”
• Elizabeth Blood: “Countering the Canon: Olympe de Gouges’s Molière chez Ninon”
• Candy Gunther Brown: “Prophetic Daughter: Mary Fletcher’s Narrative and Women’s Religious and Social Experiences in Eighteenth-Century British Methodism”
• Hope Cotton Dixon: “The Gambling Woman’s Revolution: An Alternative Gender, An Alternative Epistemology”
• Gloria Shultz Eastman: “Method to This Madness: Fragmented Discourse in Mary Wollstonecraft’s Maria”
• Amy Garnai: “Politics, Exile and Authorship: Charlotte Smith’s The Emigrants”
• Sandro Jung: “Some Notes on the Hellenism of Mary Robinson’s Odes”
• Justine Crump: “Prescription, Practice, and Eighteenth-Century Women’s Reading: The Case of Fanny Burney”
• Heather King: “‘Be Mistress of Your Self, and Firm to Virtue’: Female Friendship in Catharine Trotter’s The Unhappy Penitent”
• Zoe Kinsley: “A Tour to Milford Haven and Millenium Hall: Female Charity and the Example of Elizabeth Montagu”
• Suzan Last: “‘The Cabal were at a loss for the Author’s Meaning’: Eliza Haywood’s Adventures of Eovaai as Metasatire”
• Jacqueline Letzter: “Staging Sappho: Feminism and Performativity in Constance de Salm’s Sapho”
• Cynthia Richards: “Revising History, ‘Dumbing Down’ and Imposing Silence: The Female Biography of Mary Hays”
  

VOLUME 2 (August 2002)

• Susannah Quinsee: “ Deconstructing Female ‘Virtue’: Mariana Alcoforda’s Five Love Letters from a Nun to a Cavalier and Aphra Behn’s Love Letters
• between and Nobleman and His Sister”
• Peter E. Morgan: “A Subject to Redress: Ideology and the Cross-Dressed Heroine in Aphra Behn’s The Widow Ranter”
• Margo Collins: “Eliza Haywood’s Cross-Gendered Amatory Audience”
• Temma F. Berg: “Charlotte Lennox and Lydia Clerke: Reflecting on Letters”
• Susan Klute: “The Admirable Cunegonde”
• Pam Perkins: “Sixteenth-Century Queens in Eighteenth-Century Literature”
• Karen Eliot: “The Luster of a Ballerina: Giovanna Bacacelli on the Stage and Off”
• Mary Cisar: “Madame Roland and the Grammar of Female Sainthood”
• Elizabeth Franklin Lewis: “The Sensibility of Motherhood: Josefa Amar y Boron’s Discurso sobre la educacion fisica y moral de las muheres”
• Judith W. Fisher: “The Stage on the Page: Sarah Siddons and Ann Radcliffe”
• B. Evelyn Westbrook: “Matrilineal Descent in the Gothic Novel”
  

VOLUME 1 (June 2001)

• Richard Johnson Sheehan and Denise Tillery: “Margaret Cavendish, Natural Philosopher: Negotiating between Metaphors of the Old and New Sciences”
• William E. Burns: “‘By Him the Women will be delivered from that Bondage, which some has found intolerable’: M. Marsin, English Millenarian Feminist”
• Virginia M. Duff: “‘[F]allen by mistaken rules’: Anne Finch’s “The Bird and the Arras” and the Subtle Indictment of Domestic Confinement and Marriage Law”
• Joel H. Baer: “Penelope Aubin and the Pirates of Madagascar: Biographical Notes and Documents”
• Tiffany Potter: “‘Decorous Disruption’: The Cultural Voice of Mary Davys”
• Jennifer Thorn: “‘Althea must be open’d’: Eliza Haywood, Individualism, and Reproductivity”
• Marilyn Roberts: “The Memoirs of Wilhelmina of Bayreuth: A Story of Her Own”
• Joyce Grossman: “Social Protest and the Mid-Century Novel: Mary Collyer’s The History of Betty Barnes”
• Jack Fruchtman Jr.: “The Politics of Sensibility: Helen Maria Williams’s Julia and the Terror in France”
• Verna Linney: “A Passion for Art, A Passion for Botany: Mary Delany and her Floral ‘Mosaiks’”
• Nathaniel Paradise: “From Poet to Novelist: Women Writers and the Literary Marketplace”
• John R. Cole: “Imlay’s Ghost: Wollstonecraft’s Authorship of The Emigrants”
• Theresa A. Dougal: “Teaching Conduct or Telling a New Tale? Priscilla Wakefield and The Juvenile Travellers”