Women and Material Culture, 1660–1830

1. Introduction
Jennie Batchelor, Cora Kaplan

Part I. Dress and Adornment

2. Women and their Jewels
Marcia Pointon

3. Fanny’s Pockets: Cotton, Consumption and Domestic Economy, 1780–1850
Barbara Burman, Jonathan White

4. ‘Changing her gown and setting her head to rights’: New Shops, New Hats and New Identities
Jillian Heydt-Stevenson

Part II. Women and Sculpture

5. Sculpting in Tiaras: Grand Duchess Maria Fedorovna as a Producer and Consumer of the Arts
Rosalind P. Blakesley

6. Pride and Prejudice: Eighteenth-century Women Sculptors and their Material Practices
Marjan Sterckx

7. A Female Sculptor and Connoisseur: Artistic Self-fashioning and the Exposure of Connoisseurship, Collecting and Concupiscence
Angela Escott

Part III. The Material Culture of Empire

8. The Taste for Bringing the Outside in’: Nationalism, Gender and Landscape Wallpaper (1700-1825)
Ellen Kennedy Johnson

9. Taihu Tatlers: Aesthetic Translation in the China Trade
David Porter

10. White Slavery: Hannah More, Women and Fashion
Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace

Part IV. Women and Books

11. Reinstating the ‘Pamela Vogue’
Jennie Batchelor

12. The Book as Cosmopolitan Object: Women’s Publishing, Collecting and Anglo-German Exchange
Alessa Johns

13. ‘Books without which I cannot write’: How Did Eighteenth-century Women Writers Get the Books They Read?
Susan Staves

Keywords: Literature, British and Irish Literature, Eighteenth-Century Literature, History of Britain and Ireland, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Gender Studies