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Jane Austen was as skillful with a needle as she was with a pen, and this unique book showcases rare and beautiful embroidery patterns from her era, repurposed into 15 modern sewing projects. Derived from Lady's Magazine (1770-1832), a popular monthly periodical of fashion, fiction, and gossip, the...

This pathbreaking collection features original essays by leading scholars working at the intersections of women’s literary history, book history, and media cultures. Drawing on underexplored archives and innovative methodologies—from feminist bibliography to digital humanities—the contributors...

This pathbreaking collection features original essays by leading scholars working at the intersections of women’s literary history, book history, and media cultures. Drawing on underexplored archives and innovative methodologies—from feminist bibliography to digital humanities—the contributors...

In December 1840, Charlotte Bront wrote in a letter to Hartley Coleridge that she wished 'with all her] heart' that she 'had been born in time to contribute to the Lady's magazine'. Nearly two centuries later, the cultural and literary importance of a monthly publication that for six decades...

In December 1840, Charlotte Bront wrote in a letter to Hartley Coleridge that she wished 'with all her] heart' that she 'had been born in time to contribute to the Lady's magazine'. Nearly two centuries later, the cultural and literary importance of a monthly publication that for six decades...

This book is about mapping the future of eighteenth-century women's writing and feminist literary history, in an academic culture that is not shy of declaring their obsolescence. It asks: what can or should unite us as scholars devoted to the recovery and study of women's literary history in an era...

"The range of the contributors leaves the reader with a sense of how important Austen is to writers in particular, who see in her not simply an antecedent or role model but as an old friend who, with constancy and wit, is always there during those transitional moments in life--the very moments that...

Each of the works in this collection documents the extraodinary fortunes of women whose real lives read like fiction.

Each of the works in this collection documents the extraodinary fortunes of women whose real lives read like fiction.

Each of the works in this collection documents the extraodinary fortunes of women whose real lives read like fiction.