Women of Letters, Manuscript Circulation, and Print Afterlives in the Eighteenth Century

1. Introduction
Melanie Bigold

2. Letter-writing, Community, and Virtuous Exemplarity: Elizabeth Rowe’s Theatre of Happiness
Melanie Bigold

3. A Saint Everlasting: Elizabeth Rowe and Biographical Exemplarity
Melanie Bigold

4. ‘The new and untrodden path’: Catharine Cockburn, Philosophy, and the Republic of Letters
Melanie Bigold

5. ‘[H]ow Obscure her Lot’: Catharine Cockburn’s Double Afterlife
Melanie Bigold

6. Elizabeth Carter: ‘a very extraordinary Phaenomenon in the Republick of Letters’
Melanie Bigold

7. Elizabeth Carter and the Theatrum Mundi

Melanie Bigold

Keywords: Literature, British and Irish Literature, Eighteenth-Century Literature, Gender Studies, Nineteenth-Century Literature