Women's Writing, 1660-1830

1. Preface: Writing and Reading the ‘Rugged Realities of Life’
Isobel Grundy

2. Introduction: Feminisms and Futures: Women’s Writing 1660–1830
Jennie Batchelor, Gillian Dow

3. Passing Judgement: The Place of the Aesthetic in Feminist Literary History
Ros Ballaster

4. Free Market Feminism? The Political Economy of Women’s Writing
E. J. Clery

5. Feminist Literary History: How Do We Know We’ve Won?
Katherine Binhammer

6. Anon, Pseud and ‘By a Lady’: The Spectre of Anonymity in Women’s Literary History
Jennie Batchelor

7. Authorial Performances: Actress, Author, Critic
Elaine McGirr

8. Pay, Professionalization and Probable Dominance? Women Writers and the Children’s Book Trade
M. O. Grenby

9. ‘There Are Numbers of Very Choice Books’*: Book Ownership and the Circulation of Women’s Texts, 1680–98
Marie-Louise Coolahan, Mark Empey

10. Gender and the Material Turn
Chloe Wigston Smith

11. Archipelagic Literary History: Eighteenth-Century Poetry from Ireland, Scotland and Wales
Sarah Prescott

12. The ‘Biographical Impulse’ and Pan-European Women’s Writing
Gillian Dow

Keywords: Philosophy, Feminism