Arlene Leis is an independent art historian who received her PhD from University of York.Kacie L. Wills received her PhD in English from the University of California, Riverside, and is Assistant Professor of English at Illinois College.

"The frameworks and methodologies set forth by the authors gathered here will provide models for future feminist scholarship in archival research and in the effective deployment of endeavours in the digital humanities that make use of social network analysis." - Tori Champion, sehepunkte"This is a valuable, well composed, and beautifully produced book. The fourteen chapters, divided among four parts, are all thoroughly researched and exhaustively documented. Each chapter has both clear, useful notes and a substantial bibliography."-Larry W. Riggs, New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century

• Part I Artificialia and Naturalia Science, Gender and Collecting:The Dutch 18th century Ladies’ Society for Physical Sciences of Middelburg Anne Harbers and Andrea Gáldy Between Art and Science: Portraits of Citrus Fruit for Anna Maria Luisa de’ MediciIrina Schmiedel Anne Vallayer-Coster’s Still Life with Sea Shells and Coral Kelsey BrosnanPart II Travel, Borders, and Networks Maria Sibylla Merian: A Woman’s Pioneering Work in Entomology Katharina Schmidt-Loske Sarah Sophia Banks’s Coin Collection: Female Networks of ExchangeErica Hayes and Kacie L. Wills Conversing with Collecting the World: Elite Female Sociability and Learning through Objects in the Age of EnlightenmentLizzie Rogers Portrait of Charlotte de France: from Naples to Sicily, a Collection in TransitMaria Antonietta Spadero 8. The Collecting Activity of Catherine II in 18th Century Russia: Pioneering Action or Sheer Demonstration of Power? Charis Ch. AvlonitouPart III Displaying, Recording, and Cataloguing ‘I made memorandums’: Mary Hamilton, Sociability, and Antiquarianism in the Eighteenth-Century CollectionMadeleine Pelling Eleanor Coade, John Soane, and the Coade CaryatidNicole Cochrane Anne Wagner’s Album (1795-1805): Collecting Feminine FriendshipRyna Ordynat An Art Cabinet in Miniature: The Dollhouse of Petronella OortmanHanneke GrootenboerPart IV Beyond the Eighteenth Century Collection, Display, and Conservation: The Print Room at Castletown House Anna Frances O’Regan Olivia Lanza di Mazzarino (1893-1970): A Lady’s collection of Eighteenth-Century Folding Fans Arlene Leis

Arlene Leis is an independent art historian who received her PhD from University of York.Kacie L. Wills received her PhD in English from the University of California, Riverside, and is Assistant Professor of English at Illinois College.

"The frameworks and methodologies set forth by the authors gathered here will provide models for future feminist scholarship in archival research and in the effective deployment of endeavours in the digital humanities that make use of social network analysis." - Tori Champion, sehepunkte"This is a valuable, well composed, and beautifully produced book. The fourteen chapters, divided among four parts, are all thoroughly researched and exhaustively documented. Each chapter has both clear, useful notes and a substantial bibliography."-Larry W. Riggs, New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century

• Part I Artificialia and Naturalia Science, Gender and Collecting:The Dutch 18th century Ladies’ Society for Physical Sciences of Middelburg Anne Harbers and Andrea Gáldy Between Art and Science: Portraits of Citrus Fruit for Anna Maria Luisa de’ MediciIrina Schmiedel Anne Vallayer-Coster’s Still Life with Sea Shells and Coral Kelsey BrosnanPart II Travel, Borders, and Networks Maria Sibylla Merian: A Woman’s Pioneering Work in Entomology Katharina Schmidt-Loske Sarah Sophia Banks’s Coin Collection: Female Networks of ExchangeErica Hayes and Kacie L. Wills Conversing with Collecting the World: Elite Female Sociability and Learning through Objects in the Age of EnlightenmentLizzie Rogers Portrait of Charlotte de France: from Naples to Sicily, a Collection in TransitMaria Antonietta Spadero 8. The Collecting Activity of Catherine II in 18th Century Russia: Pioneering Action or Sheer Demonstration of Power? Charis Ch. AvlonitouPart III Displaying, Recording, and Cataloguing ‘I made memorandums’: Mary Hamilton, Sociability, and Antiquarianism in the Eighteenth-Century CollectionMadeleine Pelling Eleanor Coade, John Soane, and the Coade CaryatidNicole Cochrane Anne Wagner’s Album (1795-1805): Collecting Feminine FriendshipRyna Ordynat An Art Cabinet in Miniature: The Dollhouse of Petronella OortmanHanneke GrootenboerPart IV Beyond the Eighteenth Century Collection, Display, and Conservation: The Print Room at Castletown House Anna Frances O’Regan Olivia Lanza di Mazzarino (1893-1970): A Lady’s collection of Eighteenth-Century Folding Fans Arlene Leis

Arlene Leis is an independent art historian who received her PhD from University of York.Kacie L. Wills received her PhD in English from the University of California, Riverside, and is Assistant Professor of English at Illinois College.

"The frameworks and methodologies set forth by the authors gathered here will provide models for future feminist scholarship in archival research and in the effective deployment of endeavours in the digital humanities that make use of social network analysis." - Tori Champion, sehepunkte"This is a valuable, well composed, and beautifully produced book. The fourteen chapters, divided among four parts, are all thoroughly researched and exhaustively documented. Each chapter has both clear, useful notes and a substantial bibliography."-Larry W. Riggs, New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century

• Part I Artificialia and Naturalia Science, Gender and Collecting:The Dutch 18th century Ladies’ Society for Physical Sciences of Middelburg Anne Harbers and Andrea Gáldy Between Art and Science: Portraits of Citrus Fruit for Anna Maria Luisa de’ MediciIrina Schmiedel Anne Vallayer-Coster’s Still Life with Sea Shells and Coral Kelsey BrosnanPart II Travel, Borders, and Networks Maria Sibylla Merian: A Woman’s Pioneering Work in Entomology Katharina Schmidt-Loske Sarah Sophia Banks’s Coin Collection: Female Networks of ExchangeErica Hayes and Kacie L. Wills Conversing with Collecting the World: Elite Female Sociability and Learning through Objects in the Age of EnlightenmentLizzie Rogers Portrait of Charlotte de France: from Naples to Sicily, a Collection in TransitMaria Antonietta Spadero 8. The Collecting Activity of Catherine II in 18th Century Russia: Pioneering Action or Sheer Demonstration of Power? Charis Ch. AvlonitouPart III Displaying, Recording, and Cataloguing ‘I made memorandums’: Mary Hamilton, Sociability, and Antiquarianism in the Eighteenth-Century CollectionMadeleine Pelling Eleanor Coade, John Soane, and the Coade CaryatidNicole Cochrane Anne Wagner’s Album (1795-1805): Collecting Feminine FriendshipRyna Ordynat An Art Cabinet in Miniature: The Dollhouse of Petronella OortmanHanneke GrootenboerPart IV Beyond the Eighteenth Century Collection, Display, and Conservation: The Print Room at Castletown House Anna Frances O’Regan Olivia Lanza di Mazzarino (1893-1970): A Lady’s collection of Eighteenth-Century Folding Fans Arlene Leis