eighteenth-century women's tributes to women
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Runge, Laura L. > (ed.)
- Creator
- Cook, Jessica > (ed.)
- Publish Year
- 2019
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 54 2019
- Thesaurus
- schrijvers, dichters, sociale netwerken, vriendinnen, gedichten, vrouwencultuur, vroegmoderne periode, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 17e eeuw, 18e eeuw, 1800-1849, 19e eeuw, bundel, biografische gegevens
- Description
- This collection of essays is about early modern women’s networks and women's praise for other women through affirmations of respect, admiration, love, and sometimes competition. The essays commemorate women's artistic and personal relationships, the complexity of female friendships, the emotional lives of women and the creativity and intellectual work contributed by women from the late seventeenth to the middle nineteenth centuries.
- With the following essays: Tracing "The Circuit of Appollo [sic] " : poetic forms and identities in Anne Finch's tributes to women poets / Claudia Thomas Kairoff ; "Those stately palaces": tribute and estates in the work of Anne Finch and Jane Barker / Nicolle Jordan ; Martha Fowke's tributes to Mary, Lady Chudleigh, 1711 and 1726 / Christine Gerrard ; Eliza Haywood, fame, and the art of self-hommage / Kathryn R. King ; "Who praises women does the muses praise" : Mary Barber, Laetitia Pilkington, and Constantia Grierson's poetic tributes / Catherine Ingrassia ; "Friendship, better than a muse, inspires" : Anna Letitia Barbauld claims the sister arts for female friendship / Laura Tallon ; Painting in brigt characters : Helen Maria Williams's poetric tributes to Anna Seward, Elizabeth Montagu, and Marie-Jeanne Roland ; Sapphic circuitry : Anna Seward's equivocal tribute to "Llangollen's vanished pair" / Susan S. Lanser ; "I delight in the success of your literary labours" : friendship as platform for reinvention / Katharine Kittredge ; Lyric sociability : object lessons in female friendship in Amelia Opie's occasional verses / Shelley King ; Afterword: Researching, writing, and teaching women's tributes to women / Betty A. Schellenberg.