Women Reading William Blake

HELEN P. BRUDER is an independent scholar and researcher, author of the feminist study, William Blake and the Daughters of Albion (1997) and is currently working on the neglected women in Blake's circle, with a special interest in the letters and journals of Ann Flaxman. She has a fascination with gender and interpretation, and in the ways women respond to canonical art.

• List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introductory Note; H.P.Bruder The Bread of sweet Thought & the Wine of Delight': Gender, Aesthetics and Blake's 'dear friend of Mrs Anna Flaxman'; H.P.Bruder Peeking over the Garden Wall; T.Chevalier Blake, Literary History and Sexual Difference; C.Colebrook Transgender Juvenilia: Blake's and Cristall's Poetical Sketches ; T.J. Connolly 'The right stuff in the right hands': Anna Gilchrist and The Life of William Blake ; S.Dent William Blake's Lavaterian Women: Eleanor, Rowena, and Ahania; S.Erle Blake's Golden Chapel: The Serpent Within and Those Who Stood Without; E.R.Freed How To Nearly Wreck Your Life by Living Blake; A. Stephen Aesthetic Agency? Enitharmon in Blake's Europe ; N.M.Goslee 'No Earthly Parents I confess': The Clod, the Pebble and Catherine Blake; G.Greer The Impact of Feminism on Blake Studies in Japan; Y.Ima-Izumi Mary and Martha on the Mount of Olives: Questions Toward a Commentary on Blake's Watercolour Illustrations of the Gospels; M.L.Johnson The Trimurti Meet the Zoas: 'Hindoo' Strategies in the Poetry of William Blake; K.S.Kruger Towards an Ungendered Romanticism: Blake, Robinson and Smith in 1793; J.M.Labbe William Blake and Romantic Women Poets: 'Then what have I to do with thee?'; H.K.Linkin 'Endless Their Labour': Women in Blake's Illuminated Works and the British Workforce; C.L.McClenahan Sentiment, Motherhood and the Sea in Gillray and Blake: C.McCreery Framing Eve: Reading Blake's Illustrations; J.D.Michael Lucid Dreaming/ Lucid Reading: Notes on Sleepers in Blake's Songs ; G.S. Norvig Valkyries and Sibyls: Old Norse Voices of Female Authority in Blake's Prophetic Books; H.O'Donoghue Re-Deeming Scripture: My William Blake Revisited; A.Ostriker The Gender of Los(s): Blake's Work in the 1790s; T.Rajan The 'Secret' and the 'Gift': Recovering the Suppressed Religious Heritage of William Blake and Hilda Dolittle; M.K.Schuchard A Kabbalistic Reading of Jerusalem 's Prose Plates; S.A.Spector Britania counter Britannia: How Jerusalem Revises Patriotism; J.Sturrock Blake: Sex and Selfhood; I.Tayler Blake Moments; J.Warner Blake, Sex and Women, Revisited; B.Webster The Strange Difference of Female 'Experience'; S.J.Wolfson Baillie and Blake: At the Intersection of Allegory and Drama; J.M.Wright Index