Women and Dictionary-Making
Women and Dictionary-Making

Author: Lindsay Rose Russell

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-04-30

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 1316953548

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Dictionaries are a powerful genre, perceived as authoritative and objective records of the language, impervious to personal bias. But who makes dictionaries shapes both how they are constructed and how they are used. Tracing the craft of dictionary making from the fifteenth century to the present day, this book explores the vital but little-known significance of women and gender in the creation of English language dictionaries. Women worked as dictionary patrons, collaborators, readers, compilers, and critics, while gender ideologies served, at turns, to prevent, secure, and veil women's involvements and innovations in dictionary making. Combining historical, rhetorical, and feminist methods, this is a monumental recovery of six centuries of women's participation in dictionary making and a robust investigation of how the social life of the genre is influenced by the social expectations of gender.

Romantic Women Writers, Revolution, and Prophecy
Romantic Women Writers, Revolution, and Prophecy

Author: Orianne Smith

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-03-28

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1107027063

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This book challenges our current critical understanding of the relations between gender, genre, and literary authority in this period.

The Intimate Letters of Hester Piozzi and Penelope Pennington, 1788-1821;
The Intimate Letters of Hester Piozzi and Penelope Pennington, 1788-1821;

Author: Hester Lynch Piozzi

Publisher: Sagwan Press

Published: 2018-02-06

Total Pages: 474

ISBN-13: 9781376820294

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Bluestockings Displayed
Bluestockings Displayed

Author: Elizabeth Eger

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-11-21

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 0521768802

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The first academic and interdisciplinary volume exploring bluestocking portraiture, performance and patronage in eighteenth-century Britain, opening vistas for future scholarship.