Women's Literary Networks and Media Cultures in the Long Eighteenth Century

Leith Davis is a professor of English and director of the Research Centre for Scottish Studies at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. She is author of Mediating Cultural Memory in Britain and Ireland: From the 1688 Revolution to the 1745 Jacobite Risingand the author or coeditor of seven other books.Michelle Levy is professor of English at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. Her most recent books are Literary Manuscript Culture in Romantic Britain and, with Betty Schellenberg, How and Why to Do Things with Eighteenth-Century Manuscripts.Diana Solomon is an associate professor of English at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. She is the author of Prologues and Epilogues of Restoration Theater: Gender and Comedy, Performance and Print and coeditor of The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama.

• List of IllustrationsList of TablesIntroduction: Gender, Literary Networks, and Media Cultures in the Eighteenth CenturyLeith Davis, Michelle Levy, and Diana SolomonPart I: Print HistoriesChapter 1: The Printer's Mark: Finding Anne Maxwell and London Printers' NetworksMargaret J.M. EzellChapter 2: Complicating Narratives of National Superiority: The Lady's Magazine; or Polite Companion (1759–1767)Susan CarlileChapter 3: What Periodicals Do To (And For) Literary History: Lessons from the Lady's Magazine (1770–1832)Jennie BatchelorChapter 4: The Waldie Sisters and their Publishers: Building a Literary Career in Early Nineteenth-Century BritainPam PerkinsChapter 5: Annotated Catalogs and Remote Participation: Restoring Women to the AuctionBénédicte MiyamotoPart II: Manuscript CulturesChapter 6: Sociability, Collaboration, Collecting: A Case Study (Harrowby Manuscript 81)Isobel GrundyChapter 7: The Domestic Economy of a Poem BookAlexis ChemaChapter 8: "Scratch it out": Retrospective Editing in the Manuscript Verse MiscellanyAngela WachowichChapter 9: Mary Tooth and Methodist Women's Manuscript SermonsAndrew O. WincklesChapter 10: "Fugitive Sightings": Making Women Visible in "The Lyon in Mourning" Manuscript ProjectLeith DavisPart III: Rethinking Women's Book HistoryChapter 11: Making Meaning Through Gender, Materiality, and Ownership: "A Catalogue of a Young Country Ladies [sic] Library" (1712)Melanie BigoldChapter 12: Female Readers at the Bristol Library Society, 1772–1800Norbert SchürerChapter 13: Women Readers in the British MuseumMichelle LevyChapter 14: Canada's First Women WritersCarole GersonChapter 15: Ethics of Care in the Ballitore ProjectRachael Scarborough King, Shaun Nowicki, Jana Ross, Tomas Gonzalez, Audrey Rodriguez, and Yvette de la VegaChapter 16: A Modern Dialogue of the DeadElizabeth EgerAfterword: More Modern Dialoguing with the DeadBetty A. SchellenbergAcknowledgementsBibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex