Women, scholarship and criticism c.1790–1900

Joan Bellamy was Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the Open University between 1984-1990, and founder and director of the Women in the Humanities Research Group. Anne Laurence is Senior Lecturer in History at the Open University. Gill Perry is Senior Lecturer in Art History at the Open University

• Introduction: Gender and Women’s HistoryGill Perry, Anne Laurence, Joan BellamyChapter 1: Musing On Muses: Representing The Actress as ‘Artist’ in British Art of the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth CenturiesGill PerryChapter 2: Distant Prospects and Smaller Circles: Questions of Authority in Maria Edgeworth’s Irish WritingsMadeline ThompsonChapter 3: Scholarship and Sensibility: Anna Jameson and Sydney Morgan in Siren LandChloe ChardChapter 4: Mary Shelley as Editor of the Poems of Percy ShelleyRichard AllenChapter 5: Women and Education in Nineteenth Century EnglandRosemary O’DayChapter 6:Mary Cowden Clarke’s Labours of LoveCicely Palser HavelyChapter 7: Women Historians and Documentary Research: Lucy Aikin, Agnes Strickland, Mary Anne Everett Green, and Lucy Toulmin SmithAnne LaurenceChapter 8:Margaret Oliphant, “Mightier than the mightiest of her sex.”Joan BellamyChapter 9: ‘Hints on Household Taste’ and ‘The Art of Decoration’: Authors, Their Audience and Gender in Interior DesignColin CunninghamChapter 10: Women, Translation and EmpowermentLorna HardwickChapter 11: ‘I Love My Sex’: Two Late-Victorian Pulpit WomenSusan MummPostscript BibliographyBiographies