Chantel M. Lavoie lectures on eighteenth-century literature at the University of Toronto. Her interest in women writers of the eighteenth century began with an exploration of Jonathan Swift’s literary female friends in Dublin, and from there developed into a fascination with the role early miscellanies played in literary reputations. She has published on early women writers, poetic collections, Canadian verse, and children’s literature.

Collecting Women is a remarkable book. It is a scrupulous, scholarly study of a highly important area of literature, with both theoretical and historical reach and importance.

Chantel M. Lavoie lectures on eighteenth-century literature at the University of Toronto. Her interest in women writers of the eighteenth century began with an exploration of Jonathan Swift’s literary female friends in Dublin, and from there developed into a fascination with the role early miscellanies played in literary reputations. She has published on early women writers, poetic collections, Canadian verse, and children’s literature.

Collecting Women is a remarkable book. It is a scrupulous, scholarly study of a highly important area of literature, with both theoretical and historical reach and importance.

Chantel M. Lavoie lectures on eighteenth-century literature at the University of Toronto. Her interest in women writers of the eighteenth century began with an exploration of Jonathan Swift’s literary female friends in Dublin, and from there developed into a fascination with the role early miscellanies played in literary reputations. She has published on early women writers, poetic collections, Canadian verse, and children’s literature.

Collecting Women is a remarkable book. It is a scrupulous, scholarly study of a highly important area of literature, with both theoretical and historical reach and importance.