Women and Transnational Cultural Exchange

Brianna E. Robertson-Kirkland is a Lecturer in Historical Musicology at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, UK.Louise Duckling is an independent scholar based in the UK.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction. Brianna E. Robertson-Kirkland (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, UK) and Louise Duckling (independent scholar, UK)Prologue. PowerPostcard 1: Queen Mary I and La Peregrina, Valerie Schutte (independent scholar, US)1. Maria Theresa and Catherine II: Women rulers transmitting unexpected gender notions far beyond their realms, Ruth Dawson (University of Hawaii at Manoa, US)Part 1. CulturePostcard 2: The 188-page letter-memoir: Mary Anne Canning’s life writing as a defense of her motherhood, Rachel Bynoth (Bath Spa University, UK)2. Imagining England: Recovering Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy’s Memoirs of the court of England (1707), Daisy Winter(Northumbria University, UK)3. The racial politics of the Chilean family in Maria Graham’s Journal of a Residence in Chile (1824), Valentina Aparicio (Queen Mary University of London, UK)4. “Today, two vent’rous females spread the sail”: The presence of female travelers in the works of Mariana Starke, Eva Lippold (University of Reading, UK)Part 2. KnowledgePostcard 3: “A new world of ideas”: Knowledge exchange in Helen Maria Williams’s translation of Alexander von Humboldt’s Personal Narrative (1814–29), Louise Duckling (independent scholar, UK)5. Madeleine de Scudéry, Aphra Behn, and translation: Using the “Carte de Tendre” for cross-channel communication of women’s ideas, Amelia Mills (Nottingham Trent University, UK)6. “Suns, wich to some other Worlds give Light”: Transnational philosophies of the universe in Margaret Cavendish’s poems and letters, Masuda Qureshi independent scholar, UK)7. Science, art, and knowledge: Nancy Anne Kingsbury Wollstonecraft and the illustration of Cuban flora, Elisa Garrido(Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain)Part 3. ArtPostcard 4: Collecting travel memories: Charlotte Bonaparte’s family album, Arlene Leis (independent scholar, UK)8. Aletheia Talbot and the art of Italy: England’s first female collector, Breeze Barrington (independent scholar, UK)9. Back through time and beyond Britain: Revealing polytheistic imagination and British imperial resolve in Eleanor Coade’s Artificial Stone products, 1769–1821, Miriam al Jamil (independent scholar, UK)Part 4. MusicPostcard 5: Mrs Macglashan of Jamaica, Andrew Bull (independent scholar, UK)10. “quite different from what it is abroad”: Elizabeth Wynne’s musical exchanges, Penelope Cave (independent scholar, UK)11. The Murrays of Warrawang: Scots in Australia, Brianna E. Robertson-Kirkland (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, UK)EpiloguePostcard 6: Felicia Hemans, the Monument of Zalongo, and the “dance” of a moment in history, Trijit Acharyya (independent scholar, India) Selected BibliographyList of ContributorsIndex

A fascinating collection that ranges across time and space to establish British women’s transnational exchanges through travel, artistic production, and various forms of writing. It also explores connections with European women, as well as with women in the Americas and as far as Australia. The meticulous archival research and deft critical analysis informing each of the chapters offers a generative basis for further studies of early modern women and transnational cultural exchange.