Women in Russian Culture and Society, 1700-1825

WENDY ROSSLYN is Professor of Russian Literature at the University of Nottingham, UK. Her research on Russian women in the Eighteenth century includes Anna Bunina (1774-1829) and the Origins of Women's Poetry in Russia (1997) and Feats of Agreeable Usefulness: Translations by Russian Women 1763-1825 (2000). She is also editor of Women and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Russia (2003). She is now working on women's philanthropy and voluntary associations. ALESSANDRA TOSI is Lecturer in Russian at Exeter University, Research Associate of Clare Hall, University of Cambrid

• Introduction; A.Tosi PART I: WOMEN AND THE ARTS Signs from Empresses and Actresses: Women and Theatre in the Eighteenth Century; L.Donnels O'Malley Female Serfs in the Performing World; R.Stites Women and Literature, Women in Literature: Female Authors of Fiction in the Early Nineteenth Century; A.Tosi Women's Travel and Travel Writing in Russia, 1700-1825; S.Dickinson The First Russian Women's Journals and the Construction of the Reader; G.Hammarberg PART II: WOMEN AND SOCIETY "Without Going to a Regular Court...": the Phenomenon of the 'Divorce Letter' in Petrine Russia; O.Kosheleva The Function of Fashion: Women and Clothing at the Russian Court (1700-62); P.Keenan Merchant Women in Business in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries; G.Ul'ianova PART III: FEMININITY AND RELIGIOUS LIFE Sacralising Female Rule, 1725-61; G.Marker Female Orthodox Monasticism in Eighteenth-Century Imperial Russia: the Experience of Nizhnii Novgorod; W.G.Wagner Women with a Mission: British Female Evangelicals in the Russian Empire in the Early Nineteenth Century; W.Rosslyn Appendix: Select Bibliography (2001-2006): Women in Russian Culture and Society, 1700-1825; W.Rosslyn

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