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Smith, Tania S. "The rhetorical education of eighteenth-century British women writers". The Ohio State University, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1303136879.
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Smith, Tania Sona. "The rhetorical education of eighteenth-century British women writers /". The Ohio State University, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1486463321626562.
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Garner-Mack, Naomi Jayne. "Eighteenth-century women writers and the tradition of epistolary complaint". Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:a4b7a20d-b36f-4657-929b-e5f375a49cd7.
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This thesis considers the presence of the epistolary tradition of female complaint in the writings of five late eighteenth-century women writers: Hester Thrale Piozzi, Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Turner Smith, Mary Robinson, and Frances Burney D’Arblay. The epistolary female complaint tradition is premised on the suggestion that readers are permitted, through the literary endeavours of male authors/transcribers, a glimpse into the authentically felt woes of women; the writers in this study both question and exploit this expectation. Often viewed by critics like John Kerrigan as a tradition that stifled female creativity, epistolary female complaint proves, this thesis argues, a lively and enlivening tradition for women writers; it provided opportunities for literary experimentation and enabled them to turn their experiences into artistic form. Five themes central to the epistolary female complaint tradition are considered: betrayal, absence, suicide, falls, and authorship. Each chapter looks at one theme and one author specifically. Chapter 1 examines the narrative of betrayal Hester Thrale Piozzi established in her journals from 1764 to 1784. Chapter 2 turns to Mary Wollstonecraft and her accounts of absence in her private letters to Gilbert Imlay, and her epistolary travel account, A Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796). Chapter 3 discusses Charlotte Turner Smith’s engagement with the theme of suicide in her Elegiac Sonnets (1784) and her epistolary novel, Desmond(1792). Chapter 4 considers the strategies employed in Mary Robinson’s autobiographical, poetic, and fictional writings, which work to move beyond the moral fall the tradition implied. Chapter 5 focuses on the recurrent theme of authorial debt in Frances Burney D’Arblay’s journals, plays, and fiction. I conclude by considering Jane Austen’s appropriation of the tradition in her final novel, Persuasion (1818), and her transformation of the tradition by providing a resolution to the cause of complaint.
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Raza, Rosemary. "British women writers on India between mid-eighteenth century and 1857". Thesis, University of Oxford, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.285448.
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Scott, Francesca M. "The fuzzy theory and women writers in the late eighteenth century". Thesis, University of Warwick, 2011. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/50247/.
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'Fuzzy Theory and Women Writers in the Late Eighteenth Century' contends that women writers require more careful critical treatment, and suggests that critics are still bound by the outdated logic of the Law of the Excluded Middle. This law, first formulated by Aristotle, and developed by Gottfried Leibniz in the early eighteenth century, indicates that where there are two contradictory prepositions, one must be true and the other false; a female writer must, therefore, either be feminine or masculine, conservative or radical. The twentieth century concept of Fuzzy logic, however, helped mathematicians and engineers to manage reasoning that was only approximate, rather than exact. Borrowing from this, the thesis will employ the Fuzzy Set Theory, which permits the gradual assessment of elements in a set, rather than relying on elements that are assessed in binaric terms (the principle of bivalence, or, contradiction). Put simply, the Fuzzy Set Theory does away with binaries, the Law of the Excluded Middle, and the Law of Contradiction, allowing subjects to be imprecise, and changeable. Thus, each chapter will construct a Fuzzy Set by which a variety of eighteenth century debates, with which women writers engaged, can be examined. The thesis will show that all such concepts are subjective and unstable— changeable and open to personal interpretation, and will discuss such writers as Mary Wollstonecraft, Catherine Macaulay, Charlotte Smith, Anna Letitia Barbauld, Mary Hays, Lucy Aikin, Hannah More and Joanna Southcott.
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Lippold, Eva. "'Most women have no character at all' : female playwrights and the London Theatre, 1760-1800". Thesis, Loughborough University, 2018. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/33407.
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The eighteenth century saw a remarkable increase in the number of works written by women, and also the number of women who made a living by writing. For the first time, being a writer was a viable career choice for a woman, and it was possible to support a family by writing, despite the backlash some individual writers, such as Mary Wollstonecraft, faced for their work. This thesis focuses on the work women did in the eighteenth-century theatre, and how they reconciled the demands of being a professional writer with their society's gender expectations. By analysing a variety of play texts written by different women, I show that they engaged critically with ideas about female virtue, the marriage market, and women's participation in the literary scene, the working world, and national politics. The plays of this period are relatively under-researched, and often do not appear at all in critical studies of eighteenth-century literature. My aim, therefore, is to rectify this situation, and to join other critics in rediscovering this interesting and vital era of female playwriting.
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Harwell, Jane B. "Changing Her Habit: Women Writers and Needlework in Early Eighteenth-Century England". VCU Scholars Compass, 2019. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5878.
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This thesis attends to the appearance of needlework within early eighteenth-century British women's writing. The central goal of this work is to complicate the seemingly oppositional relationship between the needle and the quill, as applied to women surrendering needlework for written work. Popular representations of needlework within early novels demonstrate an elision between text and textile. Further, both female-authored work and the lack of surviving embroideries elucidate the ephemerality of what is broadly defined as "Women's Work." I focus on texts between 1700-1750, however the material examples of embroidery were created as early as 1570. This timeline helps illuminate the tradition of needlework in which women workers interact. In addition to gender, this thesis scrutinizes the impact of class- and cultural-others within the nascent British imperialistic patriarchal marketplace.
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Stanford, Roslyn, i res cand@acu edu au. "Righting Women’s Writing: A re-examination of the journey toward literary success by late Eighteenth-Century and early Nineteenth-century women writers". Australian Catholic University. School of Arts and Sciences, 2002. http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/digitaltheses/public/adt-acuvp25.09042006.
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This thesis studies the progressive nature of women’s writing and the various factors that helped and hindered the successful publication of women’s written works in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The thesis interrogates culturally encoded definitions of the term “success” in relation to the status of these women writers. In a time when success meant, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, “attainment of wealth or position”, women could never achieve a level of success equal to the male elite. The dichotomous worldview, in which women were excluded from almost all active participation in the public sphere, led to a literary protest by women. However, the male-privileged binary system is seen critically to affect women’s literary success. Hence, a redefinition of success will specifically refer to the literary experience of these women writers and a long-lasting recognition of this experience in the twentieth century. An examination of literary techniques used in key works from Catherine Macaulay, Mary Wollstonecraft, Hannah More, Mary Shelley and Jane Austen suggests that there was a critical double standard with which women writers were constantly faced. The literary techniques, used by the earlier writers, fail in overcoming this critical double standard because of their emphasis on revolution. However, the last two women writers become literary successes (according to my reinterpretation of the term) because of their particular emphasis on amelioration rather than revolution. The conclusion of the thesis suggests that despite the “unsuccessful” literary attempts by the first three women authors, there is an overall positive progression in women’s journey toward literary success. Described as the ‘generational effect’, this becomes the fundamental point of the study, because together these women represent a combined movement which challenges a system of patriarchal tradition, encouraging women to continue to push the gender relations’ boundaries in order to be seen as individual, successful writers.
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Johnston, Elizabeth. "Competing fictions eighteenth-century domestic novels, women writers, and the trope of female rivalry /". Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2005. https://eidr.wvu.edu/etd/documentdata.eTD?documentid=4149.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--West Virginia University, 2005.Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains v, 297 p. Vita. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-294).
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Agorni, Mirella. "Translating Italy for the eighteenth century : British women novelists, translators and travel writers 1739-1797". Thesis, University of Warwick, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.287087.
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Powers, Miriam Ute. "Powerful Women Writers in Eighteenth Century Germany: A Comparison of the Two German Women Writers Sophie Von La Roche (Gutermann) and Dorothea Schlegel (Mendelssohn), Exploring their Upbringing, Marriages, Love, Literary Works, And Social Atmospheres". Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1556377494317911.
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McVitty, Debbie. "Familiar collaboration and women writers in eighteenth-century Britain : Elizabeth Griffith, Sarah Fielding and Susannah and Margaret Minifie". Thesis, University of Oxford, 2007. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:626a7d25-a7b8-448c-acef-cba199e63f54.
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Between 1740 and 1770, a number of women writers choose to make explicit in their printed texts their collaboration with a ‘familiar’: a family member or close friend. In so doing, they strategically enact their personal relationships through the medium of print in order to claim for themselves a level of literary power and delineate the terms on which they entered the marketplace as authors. This thesis argues that familiar relations expressed along a horizontal axis – those of husband, wife, brother, sister and friend – offer a relatively flexible model of familiar relations in which women could acquire a level of agency in self-definition, supported by ideologies that valued women’s contribution to the polite sphere of sociable conversation. It demonstrates that Elizabeth Griffith, Sarah Fielding, Jane Collier, and Susannah and Margaret Minifie not only engage in collaborative literary production that is thoroughly inflected with the pressures of their historical context but that through familiar collaboration women writers display their professional authorial personae and generate social and literary criticism. Through close readings of carefully selected collaborative texts in the corpus of each writer, including the material history of the texts themselves, and the relationships expressed through those texts, this thesis highlights the complexity with which family relations interacted with print culture in the period. Far from using the familiar relation as a means of modestly retiring to the domestic sphere these women writers used their familiar relations as a basis from which to launch, describe and defend their authorial careers.
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Prunean, Alexandra. "Commercial strategies in paratextual features of late eighteenth-century children’s books". Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/385019.
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El objetivo de esta tesis es profundizar tanto en la comprensión de los libros infantiles por separado, como en la literatura infantil en su totalidad y llamar la atención sobre el aspecto comercial de la literatura infantil. En el contexto de la aparición del consumismo juvenil en el siglo dieciocho, el planteamiento hecho por diversas escritoras de literatura infantil fue una contribución importante al debate sobre la educación, proporcionando a las educadoras tanto autoridad domestica como literaria. El marco seleccionado (1780-1816 en Gran Bretaña) es un periodo muy significativo, ya que está marcado por importantes cambios en todos los niveles, principalmente como resultado de la Revolución Francesa (1789-1799), así como el debate social posterior en Gran Bretaña en respuesta a esta revolución.
Las autoras analizadas en esta tesis (Sarah Trimmer, Ellenor Fenn, las hermanas Kilner y Lucy Peacock) fueron escritoras que compartieron el mismo editor prolífico, John Marshall. Todas fueron muy conscientes del mercado literario y, en consecuencia, las características paratextuales de sus obras (seudónimos, títulos y subtítulos, epígrafes, dedicatorias, prefacios, prólogos, epílogos, listas de suscriptores, tabla de contenidos e índices, notas al pie, listas de catálogo), que son una forma de auto-representación dirigidas a los padres y/o niños, contienen una serie de estrategias ingeniosas con la posible finalidad de influir en su público a comprar sus ‘productos’. Por lo tanto, la tesis tiene como objetivo el estudio de la auto-representación de las escritoras, examinando una serie de textos literarios y dos periódicos – y sus paratextos – que se utilizaron para crear interés y atención, y, al hacerlo, ayudar a estas escritoras a avanzar en su objetivo comercial.
Se examinarán los medios – tanto a nivel estilístico como retórico – a través de los cuales las escritoras intentaron modular la respuesta del lector en cuanto sus obras, con el fin de incrementar el atractivo y la viabilidad comercial. Esto es muy significativo no sólo porque pone en relevancia los aspectos textuales que son convencionalmente relegados o incluso ignorados, sino también esencialmente porque destaca el hecho de que estas escritoras no fueron simplemente aficionadas y entusiastas que trabajaron desinteresadamente para la educación de las generaciones más jóvenes, sino que fueron profesionales en su oficio y además diestras en configurar instrumentalmente sus paratextos con el propósito de consolidar su lugar en un mercado altamente competitivo. Al correlacionar el enfoque tradicional de análisis basado en texto con el estudio más moderno de los paratextos, podemos descubrir no solamente correspondencias fascinantes, sino también el carácter más sorprendente de esos elementos como promotores de la agenda comercial de las autoras.The purpose of this research is to deepen the understanding of both individual children’s books and of children’s literature as a whole and to draw attention to the commercial side of children’s literature. Within the context of the emergence of juvenile consumerism in the eighteenth century, the approach made by women writers of children’s literature is a substantial contribution to the debate on education, providing women educators with both domestic and literary authority. The selected framework (1780-1816 in Britain) is a highly significant period as it is marked by important changes at all levels, primarily as a result of the French Revolution (1789-1799), and the subsequent social debate in Britain in response to this revolution. The authors focussed on here (Sarah Trimmer, Ellenor Fenn, the Kilner sisters and Lucy Peacock) were women writers who shared the same prolific publisher, John Marshall. All were keenly aware of the literary market and, consequently, the paratextual features of their works (pseudonyms, titles and subtitles, epigraphs, dedications, addresses, advertisements, prefaces, postscripts, lists of subscribers, table of contents and indexes, footnotes, catalogue lists), which are a form of self-representation targeted at parents and/or children, contain a range of resourceful strategies with the possible purpose of influencing their audience to purchase their ‘products’. Therefore, the thesis studies this aspect of the writers’ self-representation by looking at a series of literary texts and two periodicals – and their paratexts – that were used to create interest and attention, and, by doing so, help these writers advance their commercial objective. The thesis examines the particular means – at both the stylistic and rhetorical level – by which a number of women writers appeared to have aimed at modulating reader response to their work, for the ultimate purpose of incrementing their commercial attractiveness and viability. This is highly significant not simply because it brings to the fore textual aspects that are conventionally relegated or even ignored, but most essentially because it points to the fact that these writers were not simply enthusiastic amateurs disinterestedly working for the education of the younger generations; rather, they were professional practitioners of their trade who were adroit at instrumentally configuring their paratexts for the purpose of consolidating their place in a highly competitive market. By correlating the traditional approach to text-based analysis with the more modern study of the paratexts we can discover not only fascinating correspondences, but also the more surprising nature of those elements as promoters of the writers’ commercial agenda.
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Sanderson, Elizabeth C. "Women and work in eighteenth century Edinburgh". Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/20167.
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Using the context of the eighteenth-century burgh of Edinburgh the present study has focused on women's employment, showing how women were able to operate even within restricted areas, and how the experience of work affected their lives. Two important areas of employment, domestic service and ale-selling, are not included as the scale and nature of these occupations demands separate investigation. Servants in the context of this thesis are those who had some specialist skill or training, such as servants to shopkeepers. In the course of investigating employment in the textile trades, for example shopkeepers, milliners and mantuamakers a very large proportion of women's activities in Edinburgh, important in formation came to light on other major occupants, such as graveclothes-making and rouping which had not been previously studied. It is hoped that this study of women and work in eighteenth century Edinburgh may lead to similar studies for other Scottish towns in the period before 1800. There are no records of women equivalent to those for men as found in the male apprenticeship and burgess registers, nor by comparison are there many women's testaments. The Burgess Register, however, was invaluable for the identification of many women whose husbands became burgesses by right of their wives. The Register not only gave information on the wives but also on the identities of their fathers and the occupation of the latter. Marriage registers are an obvious source of information for women. Since many women repeatedly turned up in the main record sources used, some reconstruction of their lives was made possible. These sources consisted of the records of the Edinburgh Commissary Court, Edinburgh Burgh Court and other burgh records, the Minutes of the Merchant Company of Edinburgh, those of certain craft incorporations, such as the Goldsmiths and Surgeons, and private archives, in particular household accounts and correspondence.
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McKenzie-Stearns, Precious. "Venturesome women : nineteenth-century British women travel writers and sport". [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2007. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0001901.
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Crouch, K. A. "Attitudes towards actresses in eighteenth-century Britain". Thesis, University of Oxford, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.282016.
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Smith, Theresa Ann. "New visibility : women and the public sphere in eighteenth-century Spain /". Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9945690.
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McCreery, Cindy. "Satiric prints of women in late eighteenth-century England". Thesis, University of Oxford, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.336246.
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Gamache, Robert N. "Swift : peculiar supporter of female writers". [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0002832.
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Longust, Bridgett Renee 1964. "Reconstructing urban space: Twentieth-century women writers of French expression". Diss., The University of Arizona, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/282108.
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This dissertation examines the importance of urban space in the works of feminist writers from France, Quebec, the Maghreb and Francophone West Africa. Each author writes women as subjects of their own experience in the city, identifies the representations of power and gender in urban landscapes, restores a feminist voice to the polis and supports women's claim to enfranchisement in urban space. My analysis is based upon the fundamental premise that urban space reflects power dynamics and is, like gender, a social and political construction borne of a dominant patriarchal ideology. The urban type of the female flaneuse, or ambulant heroine, is prevalent in several of the texts. These are women whose personal trajectories through the metropolis serve as a common referant to define their identity. Exploitation, disciplinary surveillance and disillusion characterize (1) Claire Etcherelli's urban dystopia in Elise ou la vraie vie. (2) Annie Ernaux's observations of life in the periphery of Paris in the Journal du dehors are centered on the market economy of the city and women's status as commodity. The deviant behavior of (3) Andree Chedid's virtually homeless, elderly heroine in La cite fertile thinly veils a provocative inquiry into the notion of urban identity. (4) Christine de Pizan and the Quebecoise writer, (5) Nicole Brossard both employ the metaphor of construction--architectural and textual--and share utopian visions of women's writing as the site for feminist praxis and cultural transformation. (6) Nina Bouraoui's cloistered Algerian heroine in La Voyeuse interdite and the women in (7) Assia Djebar's novels dare to defy and transgress the boundaries which exclude women from the urban realm in the Maghreb. (8) Calixthe Beyala's novels depict young African women struggling with issues of identity and survival in metropolises dominated by a repressive, patriarchal mentality. Throughout the texts, the city appears in multiple guises: as a text, a body, a marketplace, and a prison. For these authors, writing on the city constitutes a feminist act asserting women's right to claim a voice in that space. These works situate the city as a locus of cultural and political critique, whose spatial configurations reflect the social constructions of gender.
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Bunting, Kirsty. "The Possibilities For Collaboration between Late-Nineteenth-Century Women Writers". Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.521939.
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Webster, Rachel Louise. "Nineteenth-century dissenting women writers : literary communities, conviction and genre". Thesis, University of Leeds, 2014. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/7892/.
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This thesis reconstructs the dissenting religious communities of five nineteenth-century women writers: Hannah More, Catherine and Susanna Winkworth, Elizabeth Gaskell and Josephine Butler. The case study approach locates each woman within an active, religious environment, arguing that community played a significant role in her spiritual and literary development. A recent trend in Romantic Studies has examined creativity in collaborations, in order to dismiss once and for all the myth of an individual genius. This thesis extends the preoccupation to consider the presence of sociability and creative communities in the lives of nineteenth-century religious women. Religiosity is an essential identification for all five women, helping to shape their social agenda, but more importantly to inform their textual choices. Diverse political and theological positions were encouraged and contested within each community, using novels, biographies, poetry, hymns, and speeches to disseminate conviction: they addressed the Abolition of the Slave Trade, German Higher Criticism’s threat to the Christian faith, class unrest and the ‘problem’ of the fallen woman. One of this thesis’s innovations has been to view Evangelicals alongside more recognisable dissenting bodies such as the Unitarians. Evangelicalism’s problematic position within the Anglican Church caused it to be ostracised and distrusted, an experience familiar to the dissenter. The close alliances that existed between orthodox convictions, often assumed in childhood, and a dissenting belief owned and experienced in adulthood have blurred the dividing lines between orthodoxy and dissent. Gendered assumptions about female religious community are dismantled and re-imagined, allowing space for female-male collaborations to emerge. Any conclusions about female religiosity are to be understood relationally, with masculine identity crucial for determining a Christian experience. The nineteenth-century emergence of a feminised Christ (simultaneously a radicalised and conservative representation) is a central figure in which to draw conclusions about the dissenting and gendered practices of these communities. Simplistic conclusions about literary communities are avoided, and instead the case studies represent the diversity of religious convictions, the differences in communal activities, and the varying textual products of collaboration. Community proved both enabling and challenging to the development of these five women.
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Reimann, K. A. "On their own account : pirate narratives and pirate writers of the long eighteenth century". Thesis, University of Oxford, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.260104.
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Fronius, Helen. "The diligent dilettante : women writers in Germany, 1770-1820". Thesis, University of Oxford, 2003. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:d95009fe-e8ea-4bcf-b520-29f2e9e849b5.
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The thesis sets out to explain the presence of women writers in the book market of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In order to do so, it examines the position of women writers in Germany - in the context both of their discursive and of their social reality. The thesis investigates the ideological and material background for women's writing, by exploring the areas of gender ideology, contemporary concepts of authorship, women's reading, and the literary market. The final chapter examines women's freedom of expression in different public circumstances. The thesis argues that women's position in the business of culture in general and literature in particular is not as unpromising as has often been claimed. By investigating less well-known texts on gender roles, such as eighteenth-century journal articles, it is possible to show that the rhetoric of prohibitions, for example regarding women's reading and writing, was by no means uniform, but fragmentary and frequently contradictory. Women's own responses to the conditions under which they were working are highlighted throughout the thesis, and examined on the basis of a range of texts, including unpublished correspondence. The examination of non-literary factors, such as the expansion of the literary market and the emergence of a newly diverse reading public, enables the identification of causes other than gender as determining women's position as writers during this period. In the course of this study, numerous neglected texts are considered, which broaden our understanding of this period of literature. The creative and successful use which women writers made of the opportunities they were afforded is emphasised throughout, thereby making an important contribution to the study of women writers.
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Bowen, Scarlett K. "The labor of femininity : working women in eighteenth-century British prose /". Digital version accessible at:, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p9837908.
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Milling, Jane Rebecca. "The performance and politics of seventeenth century women dramatists". Thesis, University of Exeter, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.388603.
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Northrop, Chloe Aubra. "Fashioning Society in Eighteenth-century British Jamaica". Thesis, University of North Texas, 2015. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc822729/.
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White women who inhabited the West Indies in the eighteenth century fascinated the metropole. In popular prints, novels, and serial publications, these women appeared to stray from “proper” British societal norms. Inhabiting a space dominated by a tropical climate and the presence of a large enslaved African population opened white women to censure. Almost from the moment of colonial encounter, they were perceived not as proper British women but as an imperial “other,” inhabiting a middle space between the ideal woman and the supposed indigenous “savage.” Furthermore, white women seemed to be lacking the sensibility prized in eighteenth-century England. However, the correspondence that survives from white women in Jamaica reveals the language of sensibility. “Creolized” in this imperial landscape, sensibility extended beyond written words to the material objects exchanged during their tenure on these sugar plantations. Although many women who lived in the Caribbean island of Jamaica might have fit the model, extant writings from Ann Brodbelt, Sarah Dwarris, Margaret and Mary Cowper, Lady Maria Nugent, and Ann Appleton Storrow, show a longing to remain connected with metropolitan society and their loved ones separated by the Atlantic. This sensibility and awareness of metropolitan material culture masked a lack of empathy towards subordinates, and opened the white women these islands to censure, particularly during the era of the British abolitionist movement. Novels and popular publications portrayed white women in the Caribbean as prone to overconsumption, but these women seem to prize items not for their inherent value. They treasured items most when they came from beloved connections. This colonial interchange forged and preserved bonds with loved ones and comforted the women in the West Indies during their residence in these sugar plantation islands. This dissertation seeks to complicate the stereotype of insensibility and overconsumption that characterized the perception of white women who inhabited the British West Indies in the long eighteenth century.
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Chung, Wing-yu, i 鍾詠儒. "British women writers and the city in the early twentieth century". Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2003. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B2702409X.
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MacIntyre, Christine Anne. "Turn-of-the-century Canadian women writers and the "New Woman"". Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/10372.
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This study examines the literature written by the generation of women who come between pioneering women writers such as Catharine Parr Traill and Susanna Moodie and contemporary women writers such as Alice Munro and Margaret Laurence, literature which helps us to understand the tradition of New Woman writing present in Canada at the turn of the century. This thesis examines selected texts published between 1895 and 1910, a period of rapid urban and industrial expansion in Canada when women began seeing themselves and their roles in society in "new" ways. The first chapter of this thesis examines the concept of the "New Woman" in terms of its original connotations. The second chapter focuses on the representations of the "New Woman" in Lily Dougall's The Madonna of a Day. Sara Jeannette Duncan's A Daughter of Today is the subject of the third chapter. The final chapter examines short stories written by Canadian women journalists Kit Coleman, Ethelwyn Wetherald, and Jean Blewett. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
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Stiles, Kenton M. "Feminism and Methodism a study of six Methodist women in eighteenth-century England /". Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1993. http://www.tren.com.
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McCreery, Cindy. "The satirical gaze : prints of women in late eighteenth-century England /". Oxford : Clarendon press, 2004. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40031786t.
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Zalduondo, María M. "Novel women gender and nation in nineteenth-century novels by two Spanish American women writers /". Access restricted to users with UT Austin EID, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3037032.
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Matthews, Charity Christine. "Women writers and the study of natural history in nineteenth-century Canada". Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/44159.
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During the nineteenth century, women in Britain and Canada read about natural history, wrote about it, drew it, and collected it alongside their male counterparts. Produced during a time when it was widely accepted that, as Charles Darwin succinctly stated in The Descent of Man (1871), “Man is more powerful in mind and body than woman” (597), women’s contributions to the natural sciences were often overshadowed or ignored. However, women in the nineteenth century in Canada contributed greatly to the development of knowledge of meteorology, botany, zoology, and ornithology. Indeed, their work sometimes anticipated the modern ecological critique of a preoccupation with cultivating and controlling nature in the names of science and capitalism.
This dissertation examines the intellectual, literary, and scientific experiences of nature for women in nineteenth-century Canada, namely the geographical region known as Upper Canada (1791-1841), Canada West (1841-1867), or Ontario (1867-present), and investigates the language and scientific systems that were available to women to describe those experiences. Instead of struggling amateurs restricted to domestic pursuits, nineteenth-century women writers were sometimes pioneering naturalists, popularizers of science, and innovators of a hybrid approach to the language of natural history. Naturalist observations and the negotiation of how to understand nature, seeing nature as hostile, neutral, or divine, were central elements in the creation of the nineteenth-century woman’s identity. The writers examined in this study— Anna Jameson, Anne Langton, Susanna Moodie, Mary Ann Shadd, Harriet Sheppard, Frances Stewart, and Catharine Parr Traill— read scientific and literary texts and used the information to shape their understandings of the natural world, the weather, flora, and fauna. As educated, reflective thinkers, they use their letters, journals, emigration pamphlets, and autobiographical narratives to respond to systems of Linnaean classification as well as to participate in discussions which anticipated the shift later in the century to ecological perspectives inspired by Darwinism. This study examines the ways in which women writers were actively exploring shifting conceptions of the natural world as it developed alongside settlement and seeks to offer new ways of approaching the work of Jameson, Langton, Moodie, Shadd, Sheppard, Stewart, and Traill. In chapters devoted to meteorology, botany, zoology, and ornithology, this thesis rethinks both nature writing and women’s writing in Canada.
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Shen, Ruihua. "New woman, new fiction : autobiographical fictions by twentieth-century Chinese women writers /". view abstract or download file of text, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3113028.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2003.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 339-366). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Collins, Margo. "Wayward Women, Virtuous Violence: Feminine Violence in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature by Women". Thesis, University of North Texas, 2000. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2474/.
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This dissertation examines the role of "acceptable" feminine violence in Restoration and eighteenth-century drama and fiction. Scenes such as Lady Davers's physical assault on Pamela in Samuel Richardson's Pamela (1740) have understandably troubled recent scholars of gender and literature. But critics, for the most part, have been more inclined to discuss women as victims of violence than as agents of violence. I argue that women in the Restoration and eighteenth century often used violence in order to maintain social boundaries, particularly sexual and economic ones, and that writers of the period drew upon this tradition of acceptable feminine violence in order to create the figure of the violent woman as a necessary agent of social control. One such figure is Violenta, the heroine of Delarivier Manley's novella The Wife's Resentment (1720), who murders and dismembers her bigamous husband. At her trial, Violenta is condemned to death "notwithstanding the Pity of the People" and "the Intercession of the Ladies," who believe that although the "unexampled Cruelty [Violenta] committed afterwards on the dead Body" was excessive, the murder itself is not inexcusable given her husband's bigamy. My research draws upon diverse archival materials, such as conduct manuals, criminal biographies, and legal records, in order to provide a contextual grounding for the interpretation of literary works by women. Moving between contemporary accounts of feminine violence and discussions of pertinent literary works by Eliza Haywood, Susanna Centlivre, Delarivier Manley, Aphra Behn, Mary Pix, and Jane Wiseman, the dissertation examines issues of interpersonal violence and communal violence committed by women.
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Chan, Lai-on, i 陳麗安. "New enemies: women writers and the First World War". Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B38628703.
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Knights, Elspeth. "'Turned loose in the library' : women and reading in the eighteenth century". Thesis, University of Sussex, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.263157.
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Childs, Cassie Patricia. "Traveling Women and Consuming Place in Eighteenth-Century Travel Letters and Journals". Scholar Commons, 2017. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6692.
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Traveling Women and Consuming Place in Eighteenth-Century Travel Letters and Journals considers how various women-authored travel narratives of the long eighteenth century employ food in the construction of place and identity. Chronologically charting the letters and journals of Delarivier Manley, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Janet Schaw, and Frances Burney, I argue that the “critical food moments” described in their letters and journals demonstrate material, cultural, and social implications about consumption. My interdisciplinary project is located at the intersection of three seemingly divergent topics: food studies, human geography, and women-authored travel narratives. Approaching “place” as a way of being-in-the-world, my project traces the connection between verbal constructions of place and issues of identity, national and gender, across the eighteenth century. Looking at what I term “critical food moments” during travel allows us particular insight into how food simultaneously serves a literal (intended for consumption) and a figurative (used as a literary topic and device) function, and how tropes of food—such as digestion—function as lexicons which offer women writers opportunities to better understand and criticize the nation and their own identities within the nation. I argue that food-centered moments allow us to better understand the lived experiences of women traveling in the eighteenth century, to analyze how material and sensory conditions influenced and shaped women’s understandings of themselves and their positions (places) in the world. Taken together, these four women authors represent a wide-range of perspectives from various social and economic backgrounds, and yet, what they have in common is crucial: a connection with the food, communities, and places they travel.
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Glover, Katharine. "Elite women and the change of manners in mid-eighteenth century Scotland". Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/24624.
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This thesis examines the social and cultural roles and experiences of the women of the mid-eighteenth century Scottish elite. It focuses on the women of lowland gentry families. Theirs was a society preoccupied with ideas of improvement, in which a perceived ‘change of manners’, incorporating new and diverse social roles for elite women, played a defining role as an indicator of progress. Yet until now, the lived experience of these women has remained relatively under-studied. Through archival research into both women’s and men’s correspondence, supplemented by accounts, bills, memoirs and other family papers, this thesis examines aspects of elite women’s involvement in the society in which they lived. Commencing with girls’ education and upbringing, it then considers women’s reading and their relationship with various print genres. It investigates the impact of polite culture and the forms of sociability in which elite women’s participation was expected, and moves on to relate this to women’s involvement in other aspects of public life; in particular, in the machinations of politics. It ends with an analysis of women’s travels, both domestic and overseas. In relating recent developments in eighteenth-century British women’s and gender history to the specific social context of the early Scottish Enlightenment, this thesis demonstrates that even the most well-known archives can provide insights into important fields of historical enquiry when re-examined in a new light. It argues for the importance of epistolary evidence and of studying individual experience. It adds weight to the arguments for a wide-ranging interpretation of Enlightenment culture which takes account of a female readership and audience, and contributes to scholarship which explores the complexities of regional and national variations on polite culture within Britain. It adds a Scottish dimension to the growing body of work which argues for the diversity of elite and specifically genteel women’s social roles in eighteenth-century Britain.
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Chambers, Jacqueline M. "The needle and the pen : needlework and women writers' professionalism in the nineteenth century /". free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9999278.
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Mills, Jennie. "Rape and the construction of sexuality in early eighteenth-century texts". Thesis, University of Sussex, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.341513.
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李仕芬 i Shi-fan Lee. "The male characters in the fiction of contemporary Taiwanese women writers". Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1997. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31235979.
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Diack, H. Lesley. "Women, health and charity : women in the poor relief systems in eighteenth century Scotland and France". Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1999. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk/R?func=search-advanced-go&find_code1=WSN&request1=AAIU113347.
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This thesis is a study of the participation of women in the operation of the poor relief systems of Scotland and France in the eighteenth century. It examines whether or not religious difference affected the way that poor women were treated. It challenges the idea that women constituted the majority of those receiving aid from the male authorities. Certainly many women needed relief but they were not the ones who received it in the main. The church, the infirmaries and the workhouses all aided more men than women. On receipt of aid, moreover, women usually received less. This was contradictory not only to the earlier perceptions of female poverty but also to those of male poverty. The fact that men were the majority of those receiving aid and the majority of those in the institution is, on the surface, the more surprising since neither country believed in relief for the able-bodied unemployed poor. While this thesis contributes to the gender analysis of history it also recognises that social class was also a factor in the distribution of relief. Women played a fuller role in the institutions than the men and were able to avoid continual poverty by working as carers, cleaners and nurses. It would seem to be the case that women made more use of the outdoor relief available to them rather than the possibility of admission to any of the institutions. Even when a ward was established for the exclusive use of women in pregnancy this was not utilised to any extent. Catholic France, because of the traditional role played by women within the church, made more use of women and their work in the institutions. It allowed more professionalisation of the role of nurses and midwives than did Protestant Scotland.
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Arranz, Carmen. "BOUNDARIES OF MODERNITY: SPANISH WOMEN WRITERS AT THE TURN OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY". UKnowledge, 2010. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/gradschool_diss/28.
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Spanish women writers that establish their literary careers early in twentieth century find themselves at an interesting historical crossroads as the world changes from an agrarian to an industrial paradigm. On one hand, this change leads to a strong current of traditionalism, to which most male writers adhere, as it offers the attractive idea of return to a pre-modern simplicity; on the other, this change opens up possibilities for social improvement and participation for those groups traditionally excluded from power. Embracing this change poses the opportunity for female subjects to reshape fundamental structures of society and, in sum, eventually create a different world where women can become full citizens.
Blanca de los Ríos, Concha Espina, Carmen de Burgos, María Lejárraga, and Caterina Albert are representative of Spanish women writers facing this situation. Their fictional works written between 1898 and 1914 offer a rich literary production that invites us to examine the emergence of new cultural and social practices. These authors renegotiate deeply rooted ideologies that structure not only gender relations but also the social class system, the spatial organization around country/city, and Spain’s national identity built around the discourse on race. Addressing conflicting perspectives between tradition and modernity through the prism of gender, the analysis of their works reveals their taking on a modern stand, hopeful of the promises brought by the new socioeconomic reality and the liberating aspect of modernity.
As Rita Felski and Barbara Mashall´s studies have pointed out, many theorists of modernity, such as Marshall Berman and Jürgen Habermas, do not take gender into consideration. Grounded in a gendered analysis, this study reveals the importance of Spanish female authors as agents of modernity at the turn of the twentieth century.
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Sobott-Mogwe, Gaele. "Wozanazo : a bio-bibliographical survey of twentieth-century Black South African women writers". Thesis, University of Hull, 1996. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:8402.
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The canon of South African literature, as shaped by publishers, academics and past government education policies, reflects dominant race, class, language and gender biases. Knowledge of large areas of South African literature is still limited by such biases. This research focuses on and seeks to redress some of the silences surrounding Black South African Women writers and their texts. Working within the bounds of a literary canon defined by an established hierarchy and a system of binary opposites, the research deals with denied existence using the terms 'Black', 'South African' and 'Women' as tactical tools to rewrite history and repossess, revalue and reposition identity and knowledge. These terms are not intended to act as indicators of static or essential being and are used provisionally. It is hoped that the research will provide the means for new and continued interrogation of meaning within and beyond the labels and categories I have used. Prompted by an obvious lack of secondary reference material on Black South African Women writers, the research was developed as a reference source. It takes the form of a biobibliographical survey of Black South African Women writers from the first 'known' published Woman writer to the present day. The survey includes texts written in African languages as a conscious attempt to overcome the inequalities and silences promoted through the priority given to English-language texts within the South African literary canon. While Black South African Women's writing does not have a tradition in the canonical sense, the survey illustrates that it does have a past, a present and a future. It is guided by a notion of recovery and an attempt to begin a process of preservation that will hopefully continue and expand. The research aims to encourage a return to the original texts which would not otherwise be 'known'. It is thereby hoped that it will foster a greater critical awareness of Black South African Women's writing. The emphasis on both auto/biographical and bibliographical data is considered important In enabling the development of a better understanding of the way in which Black South African Women writers and their writing emerge from and intervene in specific and diverse contexts, public and private. The greater aim of the research is to provide a resource which will help us explore and begin to theorise that which resists, decentres, transforms and operates beyond the limitations set by established hierarchical polarities.
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Woodworth, Megan Amanda. "Becoming gentlemen : women writers, masculinity, and war, 1778-1818". Thesis, University of Exeter, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/38453.
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In Letters to a Young Man (1801) Jane West states that “no character is so difficult to invent or support as that of a gentleman” (74). The invention of that character, determining what qualities, qualifications, and behaviour befits a gentleman, preoccupied writers and thinkers throughout the eighteenth century. This thesis traces the evolution of the masculine ideals – chivalry, republican virtue, professional merit – that informed what it meant to be a gentleman. Because gentlemanliness had implications for citizenship and political rights, Defoe, Richardson, Rousseau, and the other men who sought to define gentlemanliness increasingly connected it and citizenship to gendered virtue rather than socio-economic status. Women writers were equally concerned with the developing gentlemanly ideal and, as I will show, its political implications. This thesis brings together masculinity studies and feminist literary history, but also combines the gendered social history that often frames studies of women’s writing with the political and military history traditionally associated with men. Doody (1988) suggests that novels are influenced by three separate histories: “the life of the individual, the cultural life of the surrounding society, and the tradition of the chosen art” (9). With the feminocentric novel, however, the historical context is often circumscribed by a concern for what is ‘feminine’ and what polite lady novelists might be responding to. With the exception of women’s participation in the 1790s debates, eighteenth-century women writers have been seen as shying away from divisive political topics, including war. However, I will show that masculinity is central to re-evaluating the ways in which women writers engaged with politics through the courtship plot, because, as McCormack (2005) stresses, “politics and the family were inseparable in Georgian England” (13). Furthermore, as Russell (1995) observes, war is a cultural event that affects and alters “the textures of thought, feeling, and behaviour” (2-3). Focusing on late-eighteenth-century wars, this thesis will explore how political and military events influenced masculine ideals – particularly independence – and how these changes were negotiated in women's novels. Beginning with Frances Burney, this thesis explores the ways in which women writers offered solutions to the problem of masculinity while promoting a (proto)feminist project of equality. By rejecting chivalry and creating a model of manliness that builds on republican virtue and adopts the emerging professional ethic, women writers created heroes defined by personal merit, not accidents of birth. Burney begins this process in Evelina (1778) before problematising the lack of manly independence in Cecilia (1782). Charlotte Smith and Jane West take the problems Burney’s work exposes and offer alternatives to chivalric masculinity amidst the heightened concerns about liberty and citizenship surrounding the French revolution. Finally, Maria Edgeworth’s and Jane Austen’s Napoleonic-era novels promote professionalism as a path to gentility but also as a meritocratic alternative to landed and aristocratic social models. Though the solutions offered by these writers differ, in their opposition to chivalric masculinity they demonstrate that liberating men from the shackles of feudal dependence is essential to freeing women from patriarchal tyranny.
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Leach, Camilla. "Quaker women and education from the late eighteenth to the mid nineteenth century". Thesis, University of Winchester, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.431215.
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Harding, Andrew Christopher. "Gender disruption, rivalry, and same-sex desire in the work of Victorian women writers". Thesis, University of Chester, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10034/311067.
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This thesis examines the important role of female same-sex relationships in nineteenth-century literature and culture. Whilst drawing directly upon Sharon Marcus's recent book, Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England, a revisionary queer reading of inter-dependent same-sex female intimacy and mainstream middle-class heteronormative ideals, my own study extends the parameters of Marcus's work by focussing on alternative contexts and previously overlooked same-sex female relationships. This thesis argues that the culturally endorsed model of Victorian female homosociality identified by Marcus was subject to disruption and transformation both within and beyond the institutions of marriage and the family. It concludes that various forms (rather than one definitive model) of homosocial desire shaped nineteenth-century female bonding. In the first chapter I explore the unstable social status of working middle-class women, and identify instances of employer/employee female intimacy organised upon a disturbance or reversal of social hierarchy. In the second chapter I demonstrate how the ideal of female amity was inevitably undermined in the literary marketplace, and that whilst women writers were engaged in constructing and disseminating this ideal in their novels, they were also embroiled in a series of professional jealousies with one another which served to undo the very ideal they were promoting. In the second part of this chapter I highlight the pluralism of mainstream homoerotic femininity by examining Dinah Mulock Craik's fictional representation of homoerotic surveillance manifest in a culturally endorsed adolescent female gaze. In the third chapter I challenge Marcus's claim that well-known independent nineteenth-century lesbians were fully accommodated into mainstream 'respectable' society by demonstrating that some of these women informed Eliza Lynn Linton's homophobic portrait of radical feminist separatism. I also explore in this chapter Linton's fictional representation of sororal eroticism, and argue that (notwithstanding mother/daughter bonds) Linton, like many of her contemporaries, regarded sisterhood as the primary bond between women. I also evidence in this chapter that Linton's portrait of 'sororophobia' is comparable with cultural ideals regarding the important function that female friends had in facilitating one another's marriage.
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Dermineur, Elise. "Female peasants, patriarchy, and the credit market in eighteenth-century France". Purdue University, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-64291.
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Ryan, Melissa Ann. "(Un)natural law: Women writers, the Indian, and the state in nineteenth-century America". Diss., The University of Arizona, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/290048.
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This project explores the intersecting discourses of the "Woman Question" and the "Indian Problem" from the market revolution of Jacksonian America through the early twentieth century. It examines how Indianness was legally and culturally constructed in the nineteenth century, from Jacksonian removal policy to the strategies of allotment and assimilation in later decades, identifying both legal and figurative parallels to the status of white women. As Native peoples were effectively erased under Anglo-American law, married women were likewise dispossessed by the laws of coverture, under which the identity of the wife was absorbed into that of her husband. Both white women and Native peoples experienced a form of "civil death"--or legal nonexistence--and both were deprived of personhood under the guise of protection. For women writers, then, Indian policy provided an opportunity to contemplate fundamental questions of citizenship, of personhood and property, of national and individual identity. Incorporating a wide range of texts, from the early nineteenth-century fiction of Lydia Maria Child and Catharine Maria Sedgwick to the later nineteenth-century writings of suffragist Matilda Joslyn Gage and anthropologist Alice Fletcher, this study explores the various tensions--between individual sovereignty and maternal moral authority, between the language of rights and the language of sentiment--that defined the relationship between nineteenth-century white women and their Indian others, and considers how the Anglo-American tradition of possessive individualism often prevented these women from making sense of their experience with Native cultures. This study concludes with an examination of how Native women writers responded to and made use of white women's constructions of the Indian Problem. S. Alice Callahan, author of the first known novel by a Native woman, and writer-activist Zitkala-Sa carefully constructed their stories in the terms set out by women's rights discourse, inviting a readership of white women to engage with the Indian cause as an extension of their own agenda. Ultimately, even as white women's rights activists sought to subordinate the Indian Problem or to appropriate the Indian, these Native writers found in the Woman Question a way of speaking for themselves.