Women, Scholarship and Criticism Gender and knowledge [Paperback]

Brings together the varied artistic, critical and cultural productions by women scholars, critics and artists between 1790-1900, many of whom are little known in the canonical histories of the period. Questions the concepts of 'scholarship', 'criticism' and 'artist' across the different disciplines. Women discussed include authors (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Sydney Morgan and Anna Jameson) actresses ( Elizabeth Siddons, Dorothy Jordan, and Mary Robinson) critics ( Margaret Oliphant and Mary Cowden Clarke) historians (Agnes Strickland, Lucy Aikin, Mary Anne Everett Green, Elizabeth Cooper and Lucy Toulmin Smith) as well as the writers and readers of Women's magazines, educationalists and translators. Makes a significant and original contribution to the development of gender studies by extending the frontiers of existing knowledge and research.

Introduction: Gender and Women's History

Gill Perry, Anne Laurence, Joan Bellamy

Chapter 1: Musing On Muses: Representing The Actress as 'Artist' in British Art of the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

Gill Perry

Chapter 2: Distant Prospects and Smaller Circles: Questions of Authority in Maria Edgeworth's Irish Writings

Madeline Thompson

Chapter 3: Scholarship and Sensibility: Anna Jameson and Sydney Morgan in Siren Land

Chloe Chard

Chapter 4: Mary Shelley as Editor of the Poems of Percy Shelley

Richard Allen

Chapter 5: Women and Education in Nineteenth Century England

Rosemary O'Day

Chapter 6:Mary Cowden Clarke's Labours of Love

Cicely Palser Havely

Chapter 7: Women Historians and Documentary Research: Lucy Aikin, Agnes Strickland, Mary Anne Everett Green, and Lucy Toulmin Smith

Anne Laurence

Chapter 8:Margaret Oliphant, Mightier than the mightiest of her sex.

Joan Bellamy

Chapter 9: 'Hints on Household Taste' and 'The Art of Decoration': Authors, Their Audience and Gender in Intlƒ=