Readers, Writers, Salonnières

Hilary Brown is Lecturer in German at Swansea University and has published widely on German women’s writing in its European context.Gillian Dow is Lecturer in English at the University of Southampton and has research interests in cross-Channel exchanges between British and French women writers in the long eighteenth century.

• Contents: Hilary Brown/Gillian Dow: Introduction – Marianna D’Ezio: Literary and Cultural Intersections between British and Italian Women Writers and Salonnières during the Eighteenth Century – Eve-Marie Lampron: From Venice to Paris: Fame, Gender and National Sensibilities in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Female Literary Networks – Marjanne E. Goozé: Mimicry and Influence: The ‘French’ Connection and the Berlin Jewish Salon – Nicole Pohl: European Networks: Dorothea von Kurland’s Salons – Laura Kirkley: Translating Rousseauism: Transformations of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre’s Paul et Virginie in the Works of Helen Maria Williams and Maria Edgeworth – Suzan Van Dijk: Sociability and Mentoring by Correspondence: George Sand and Contemporary Female Writers – Elisabeth Jay: British Women Writers and the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Parisian Salon – Kerstin Wiedemann: Intertextuality and Network Creation: References to George Sand in Novels by Mid-Nineteenth-Century German Women Writers – Ursula Jung: The Reception of Germaine de Staël and George Sand among Female Novelists in Nineteenth-Century Spain – Gesa Stedman: Passion and Talent, Fulfilment or Death? Germaine de Staël’s Novel Corinne Crosses the Channel – Máire Fedelma Cross: Salons sans Frontières: Flora Tristan’s Reader and Writer – Alison E. Martin: Daughters of Science: Mathilde Ørsted, Leonora and Joanna Horner – Daphne M. Hoogenboezem: Marvel, Feminism and Reason: Rewriting Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy’s Fairy Tales for Dutch Children.