Women and Material Culture, 1660-1830

JENNIE BATCHELOR is Lecturer in English at the University of Kent, UK. She is the author of Dress, Distress and Desire: Clothing and the Body in Eighteenth-Century Literature (2005) and co-editor of British Women's Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century: Authorship, Politics and History (2005, with Cora Kaplan). With Cora Kaplan, she is general editor of the forthcoming Palgrave Macmillan series The History of British Women's Writing. CORA KAPLAN is Visiting Professor of English in the School of English and Drama, Queen Mary, University of London, UK, and Professor

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; J .Batchelor & C.Kaplan SECTION I: DRESS AND ADORNMENT Women and their Jewels; M.Pointon Fanny's Pockets: Cotton, Consumption and Domestic Economy, 1780-1850; B.Burman & J.White 'Changing her gown and setting her head to rights': New Shops, New Hats, and New Identities; J.Heydt-Stevenson SECTION II: WOMEN AND SCULPTURE Sculpting in Tiaras: Grand Duchess Maria Federovna as a Producer and Consumer of the Arts; R.P.Blakesley Pride and Prejudice: Eighteenth-Century Women Sculptors and their Material Practices; M.Sterckx A Female Sculptor and Connoisseur: Artistic Self-Fashioning and the Exposure of Connoisseurship, Collecting and Concupiscence; A.Escott SECTION III: THE MATERIAL CULTURE OF EMPIRE 'The Taste for Bringing the Outside In': Nationalism, Gender and Landscape Wallpaper (1700-1825); E.K.Johnson Taihu Tatlers: Aesthetic Translation in the China Trade; D.L.Porter White Slavery: Hannah More, Women and Fashion; E.K.Wallace SECTION IV: WOMEN AND BOOKS Reinstating 'The Pamela Vogue'; J.Batchelor The Book as Cosmopolitan Object: Women's Publishing, Collecting, and Anglo-German Exchange; A.Johns 'Books Without Which I Cannot Write': How did Eighteenth-Century Women Writers Get the Books they Read?; S.Staves Select Bibliography Index

'This outstanding collection provides a timely and compelling intervention in the field of material and cultural history. In collecting these essays together, the editors have combined an astonishing level of focus, detail and scholarly rigour with a breadth and clarity of vision. The result is a highly original and groundbreaking book that asks us to pay attention to questions of scale, texture and possession in the ordering of our lives.' - Dr Elizabeth Eger, Department of English Language& Literature, King's College, University of London, UK '[This book] is worth reading from cover to cover. All the stories of women and objects are interesting and thought-provoking for the insight they give into different aspects of the triangle of gender, materiality and ideas.' - Reviews in History '...this easy-to-read volume contributes greatly to our understanding of the social ties of the 1660 1830 timeframe, while explaining some of the trends that we, in the twenty-first century, often take for granted.' - Sophie Nichol Sauve, The European Legacy