Aileen Douglas was born in Dublin and did her undergraduate work at Trinity College Dublin. She holds a PhD from Princeton University. For several years she taught at Washington University in St. Louis before returning to Ireland to join the School of English, TCD. Her research interests and publications focus on eighteenth-century print culture, the materiality of writing, women's writing in the long eighteenth century, and Irish writing. She served as Dean of Undergraduate Studies (2008-2011) and is a fellow of Trinity College Dublin.

Her book achieves a high standard both as history and as literary criticism. By discussing shifts in media and the shifting reception of various forms of writing, Douglas improves our knowledge of the Age of Johnson and tells us how our assumptions about handwriting got from that age to our own. She does so elegantly, accurately, and with complete scholarly responsibility.

• Introduction 1: Seeing Script in Print 2: Round Hand Character 3: Round Hand's Dominions 4: Johnson's Character 5: Printing the Author's Hand 6: Edgeworth's Autograph 7: Factory Hands Postscript

Aileen Douglas was born in Dublin and did her undergraduate work at Trinity College Dublin. She holds a PhD from Princeton University. For several years she taught at Washington University in St. Louis before returning to Ireland to join the School of English, TCD. Her research interests and publications focus on eighteenth-century print culture, the materiality of writing, women's writing in the long eighteenth century, and Irish writing. She served as Dean of Undergraduate Studies (2008-2011) and is a fellow of Trinity College Dublin.

Her book achieves a high standard both as history and as literary criticism. By discussing shifts in media and the shifting reception of various forms of writing, Douglas improves our knowledge of the Age of Johnson and tells us how our assumptions about handwriting got from that age to our own. She does so elegantly, accurately, and with complete scholarly responsibility.

• Introduction 1: Seeing Script in Print 2: Round Hand Character 3: Round Hand's Dominions 4: Johnson's Character 5: Printing the Author's Hand 6: Edgeworth's Autograph 7: Factory Hands Postscript

Aileen Douglas was born in Dublin and did her undergraduate work at Trinity College Dublin. She holds a PhD from Princeton University. For several years she taught at Washington University in St. Louis before returning to Ireland to join the School of English, TCD. Her research interests and publications focus on eighteenth-century print culture, the materiality of writing, women's writing in the long eighteenth century, and Irish writing. She served as Dean of Undergraduate Studies (2008-2011) and is a fellow of Trinity College Dublin.

Her book achieves a high standard both as history and as literary criticism. By discussing shifts in media and the shifting reception of various forms of writing, Douglas improves our knowledge of the Age of Johnson and tells us how our assumptions about handwriting got from that age to our own. She does so elegantly, accurately, and with complete scholarly responsibility.

• Introduction 1: Seeing Script in Print 2: Round Hand Character 3: Round Hand's Dominions 4: Johnson's Character 5: Printing the Author's Hand 6: Edgeworth's Autograph 7: Factory Hands Postscript