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{"title":"“[An] old battle constantly re-fought”: Why Language Matters when Editing Early Modern Women’s Letters: A Case Study Of the Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489–1541)","authors":"Helen Newsome","doi":"10.1080/09699082.2023.2266040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09699082.2023.2266040","url":null,"abstract":"Through a case study of the holograph letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489–1541), this article examines the centuries-old editorial debate of whether to modernise or preserve the old-spelling of early modern texts. I examine how historical biographers and editors have approached and presented the language of Margaret Tudor’s letters and consider the implications their editorial approaches have on how readers perceive the figure and epistolary voice of Margaret Tudor. I then draw upon two recent studies in the field of linguistics to show how the detailed analysis of diplomatic transcriptions of Margaret Tudor’s holograph letters can provide important new insights and a fuller understanding of Margaret’s sociolinguistic history, her dual identity as English princess and Queen of Scots, and the processes and agents involved in the production of her holograph correspondence. This article argues for the necessity of diplomatic editions and for an editorial approach that carefully attends to and contextualises the language of early modern women’s letters. The article contends that such an approach is central to developing more advanced and nuanced understandings of early modern women and their letters.","PeriodicalId":42325,"journal":{"name":"Womens Writing","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135902665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editing what is Lost: Histories, Metatexts and the Extant Letters of Elizabeth Cary","authors":"Ramona Wray","doi":"10.1080/09699082.2023.2266071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09699082.2023.2266071","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article argues that the editorial history of Elizabeth Cary’s letters has powerfully influenced how the letters are read and understood today. In particular, it suggests that an editorial organisation that cleaves to Cary’s conversion has had a narrowing effect, straightjacketing the letters as “conversion writing” and underplaying the significances of texts actually enmeshed in a more expansive range of epistolary activity. The article forwards an alternative editorial strategy – a site-based method which allows for the consideration of Cary not only as a Catholic convert (an exceptional figure) but also as an early modern woman with companionate connections to other early modern writers deploying the epistolary form to address quotidian matters such as penury, precarity, homelessness and family breakdown. Dealing with the neglected issue of “extant-ness” throughout, the article argues that editors of early modern women’s letters can be more explicit about the ways in which chance, contingency and curation influence that which survives. It makes a case for embracing “extant-ness” as a concept which might usefully undergird all epistolary enquiry.","PeriodicalId":42325,"journal":{"name":"Womens Writing","volume":"249 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135902680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editing the Letters of Mary, Queen of Scots: The Challenges of Authorship","authors":"Jade Scott","doi":"10.1080/09699082.2023.2266059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09699082.2023.2266059","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis article addresses the challenges of attributing authorship to Mary, Queen of Scots, when editing her letters. It demonstrates how editing Mary’s letters offers evidence for reading early modern letters not as static texts but as evidence of the processes of early modern epistolary composition (namely, the collaborative nature of letter-writing in the period) and within a historicised understanding of authorship. An analysis of a range of Mary’s letters, from those written in her own hand, through to contemporary decipherment of coded letters, is offered to highlight the editorial challenges of her surviving correspondence. Close study of epistolary features such as signatures, script and handwriting, as well as an interrogation of the material features of Mary’s letters, suggests the benefits of a more practical approach to future editing of the correspondence.KEYWORDS: Ciphersearly modern epistolary culturegenderhandwritingsecretariessignatures Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Mary, Queen of Scots, to Henri III of France, 8 February 1587, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, Adv. MS. 54.1.1; Mary was married to Francis II of France from 24 April 1558 until his death in December 1560. Henri III was a younger brother of Francis and he ascended to the throne in 1574.2 James Daybell, Women Letter-Writers in Tudor England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), p. 104.3 Peter Holmes, “Nau de la Boissellière, Claude”, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 23 Sept. 2004 <https://www-oxforddnb-com.ezproxy.lib.gla.ac.uk/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-19811?rskey=UBf3hy&result=1> (accessed 31 August 2022).4 Mark Dilworth, “The Curle-Mowbray Family and the Scots College in Douai”, Innes Review, 56.1 (2005): 9–13.5 Calendar of State Papers relating to Scotland and Mary, Queen of Scots, 1547-1603: Preserved in the Public Record Office, the British Museum and elsewhere in England, ed. Joseph Bain, 10 vols (Edinburgh: HMSO, 1898–1969).6 Alexandre Labanoff, Lettres, instructions et mémoires de Marie Stuart, reine d’Écosse : publiés sur les originaux et les manuscrits du State paper office de Londres et des principales archives et bibliothèques de l'Europe, et accompagnés d'un résumé chronologique, 7 vols (London: Charles Dolman, 1844).7 In February 2022, a letter with a post-script, subscription and signature in Mary’s own hand sold for over £30,000, double the asking price of the auction valuation. See <https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-60241735> (accessed 29 August 2022).8 Agnes Strickland, Letters of Mary, Queen of Scots, and Documents Connected with her Personal History, 3 vols (London: H. Colburn, 1842-43).9 Rosemary Mitchell, “Agnes Strickland, (1796-1874)”, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 23 Sept. 2004 <https://www-oxforddnb-com.ezproxy.lib.gla.ac.uk/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-26663?","PeriodicalId":42325,"journal":{"name":"Womens Writing","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135902664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"On Translating and Editing the “Star of Utrecht”: The Autograph Letters of Anna Maria Van Schurman (1601–78) to André Rivet and Constantijn Huygens","authors":"Anne R. Larsen, Steve Maiullo","doi":"10.1080/09699082.2023.2266076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09699082.2023.2266076","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis article explores the challenges we faced when translating and editing the autograph letters of Anna Maria Van Schurman that span four decades from 1631 to 1669. Van Schurman was regarded as the most learned woman in Europe throughout the seventeenth and well into the eighteenth century. Most of the letters, primarily in Latin, are addressed to André Rivet (1572–1651) and Constantijn Huygens (1596–1687), towering figures in the Dutch Republic and the Republic of Letters. Our greatest challenge in translating and editing the letters was rhetorical: to discern and identify the gender dynamics at work when Van Schurman self-consciously entered the lettered world of male power and authority. Presenting the distinctive epistolary relations Van Schurman shared with Rivet and Huygens necessitated the identification of particularities in content, tone and material culture. Similarly, exploring these relations meant highlighting subtle and complex material markers in Van Schurman’s letters, such as handwriting, visual presentation, and closing subscriptions and signatures, as well as postscripts, deferential spacing and quantity of paper used. We present Van Schurman’s manuscript exchanges with Rivet and Huygens as a window into how a learned woman negotiated the challenges of epistolary networking in the Republic of Letters.KEYWORDS: Republic of Lettersearly modern learned women’s epistolary writingmateriality of the letter genreAnna Maria van SchurmanAndré RivetConstantijn Huygens Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Mirjam de Baar and Brita Rang, “Anna Maria van Schurman: A Historical Survey of Her Reception since the Seventeenth Century”, Choosing the Better Part: Anna Maria van Schurman (1607–1678), ed. Mirjam de Baar, Machteld Löwensteyn, Marit Monteiro and A. Agnes Sneller (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996), pp. 1–22 (1). We thank Ann-Maria Walsh and Ramona Wray for their invitation to the speak at the ‘Women’s Epistolary Networks, 1600–1700: Ireland and Beyond’ symposium held at Queen’s University Belfast and for their helpful comments and suggestions on an earlier version of this article.2 For Van Schurman’s biography, see Pieta van Beek, The First Female University Student: Anna Maria van Schurman (1636) (Utrecht: Igitur, 2010).3 Published in New York and Toronto by the Iter Press and in the Other Voice in Early Modern Europe series. The edition is hereafter referred to as Letters.4 For a summary to date of editions and translations of Van Schurman, see Pieta van Beek, “Anna Maria van Schurman (1607–78)” <https://annamariavanschurman.org/> (accessed 16 August 2022), and Anne Larsen and Bo Karen Lee, “Anna Maria van Schurman”, Oxford Bibliographies: Renaissance and Reformation, ed. Margaret L. King (2018, revised 2022) <https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/obo/page/renaissance-and-reformation>.5 Koninklijke Bibliotheek Collection, The Hague, MS 133 B 8. A Collection of S","PeriodicalId":42325,"journal":{"name":"Womens Writing","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135902667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Letters in the Story: Narrative-Epistolary Fiction from Aphra Behn to the Victorians <b>The Letters in the Story: Narrative-Epistolary Fiction from Aphra Behn to the Victorians</b> , by Eve Tavor Bannet, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022, 276 pp., £75 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-316-51885-4","authors":"Crystal Biggin","doi":"10.1080/09699082.2023.2260211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09699082.2023.2260211","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42325,"journal":{"name":"Womens Writing","volume":"2012 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134958221","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“Bitter Memory” Meets “Dark Retrospect”: Charlotte Smith, Satan, and the Politics of Nostalgia in <i>The Emigrants</i>","authors":"Diana Little","doi":"10.1080/09699082.2023.2261683","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09699082.2023.2261683","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTCharlotte Smith’s The Emigrants (1793), a blank verse critique of Revolutionary France during the Terror, probes the unstable connections between sentiment, nostalgia, and political will, especially in the context of gendered political engagement. To do so, Smith aligns herself with Milton’s Satan. She uses this most subversive of Paradise Lost’s characters as a model for articulating her own republican ideals and nostalgic sentiment, which both undermines and feeds her political engagement in the French Emigration Crisis. Comparing passages from The Emigrants and Paradise Lost, I argue that Smith expresses a nostalgia imbued with satanic despair to glean the political use-value of memory. Can politics – especially of a marginalized person – ever be nostalgic, or must it focus on future reform? I argue that Smith’s satanic nostalgia protests the limited forms of political engagement for women in the period, the demands of charity on women, and their social disenfranchisement.KEYWORDS: Charlotte SmithJohn MiltonSatannostalgiawomen in politics Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 While French nobleman and clergy began emigrating to Britain as early as 1789, the emigrants did not begin arriving en masse until after the September Massacres. For the next ten years, roughly 12,000 emigrants arrived in Britain every year. In total, approximately 125,000 French emigrants sought refuge in Britain. See: Michael Wiley, Romantic Migrations: Local, National, and Transnational Dispositions (New York: Palgrave, 2008), p. 8.2 Charlotte Smith, The Emigrants in Charlotte Smith: Major Poetic Works, eds. Claire Knowles and Ingrid Horrocks (Toronto: Broadview Press, 2017). All future references to The Emigrants will refer to this edition.3 Smith, “Preface to Sixth Edition (1792),” in Knowles and Horrocks, p. 55. Emphasis Smith’s.4 Smith takes “Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras dire” from John Milton, Paradise Lost, ed. Alastair Fowler (New York: Routledge, 2007), II: 628. All future references to Paradise Lost will refer to this edition.5 Sarah Zimmerman, Romanticism, Lyricism, and History (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999), p. 58. Susan J. Wolfson, Romantic Interactions: Social Being and the Turns of Literary Action (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010), p. 21.6 William Godwin, An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, ed. Mark Philp (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), p. 143.7 Lucy Newlyn, Paradise Lost and the Romantic Reader (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993), p. 92.8 Godwin, p. 143.9 Smith, as Wolfson shows, reshapes Milton’s famous epic simile describing Satan’s perpetual expulsion from Heaven – “As one who long in populous City pent, / Where Houses thick and Sewers annoy the Aire” (IX.445–6) – to describe the emigrants’ entitled expectations of luxury: “As one, who long / Has dwelt amid the artificial scenes / Of populous City” (E I.260–2). See: Wolfson, pp. 39–40.10 San","PeriodicalId":42325,"journal":{"name":"Womens Writing","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134958222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Virginia Woolf and Nineteenth-Century Women Writers: Victorian Legacies and Literary Afterlives","authors":"Pengfei Zhang","doi":"10.1080/09699082.2023.2256191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09699082.2023.2256191","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42325,"journal":{"name":"Womens Writing","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46035525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Controversy and the Hostile Reader: The Appeal of George Anne Bellamy’s Apology","authors":"Leah Orr","doi":"10.1080/09699082.2023.2235209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09699082.2023.2235209","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42325,"journal":{"name":"Womens Writing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46958665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Not just a Pretty Face: Women’s Heroic Experience in The Heroides, Book Illustration & Mural Painting in Britain, 1700–1720","authors":"Lydia Hamlett","doi":"10.1080/09699082.2023.2238501","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09699082.2023.2238501","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay examines a particular transmedial moment in the early eighteenth century which promoted the agency of women as heroines at the heart of classical narratives. Opening with a case study of Aphra Behn’s contribution and evolving place within John Dryden’s influential edition of Ovid’s Heroides, I show how later illustrative engravings came to prioritise, and productively extend, Behn’s impetus and model for female experience, one which was initially sidelined in the volume. This provides a model for thinking about the wider artistic sources available to us in understanding ways in which women took increased control and influence over their representation in art, chiefly as elite patrons, curators and subjects. In this analysis, the decade of the 1710s comes into particular focus as a time when women demonstrated and communicated creative agency inspired by the courtly culture of Queen Anne. Despite the dearth of easel paintings at this time representing classical and historical themes, engraving and mural painting were their key vehicles and, through the latter form especially, women wrought influence using classical narratives as conduits for communicating their agency as heroines at the centre of their own narratives.","PeriodicalId":42325,"journal":{"name":"Womens Writing","volume":"30 1","pages":"226 - 257"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43816663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Epic “apply’d”: Mary Leapor’s “Crumble Hall” and the Epic Mode","authors":"Anthony Walker-Cook","doi":"10.1080/09699082.2023.2238503","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09699082.2023.2238503","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Women’s involvement in the reception history of the epic genre is largely unwritten. This article explores how women writers of the period used the mock heroic to write of their own histories and experiences. I propose that three distinct developments in the eighteenth-century literary landscape influenced the engagement of women writers with epic: an increasing confidence to enter the works of Homer and Virgil from the margins; the centring of women in fragmentary translations in miscellany volumes; and the rise of the mock-heroic, which diluted the boundaries between traditional and innovative topics apt for epic application. Mary Leapor, a working-class poet and kitchen maid, is not a figure naturally associated with writing in the epic mode. However, I argue that her poetry constitutes an experiment with this mode and is emblematic of the changes to eighteenth-century literary culture that opened out the classics to many readers. But where the mock-heroic often trivialised women, Leapor’s mock country-house poem, “Crumble Hall” (1751), uses the classical space of the underworld to write of, elevate, and celebrate not warriors and heroes but the labouring classes. Leapor is a surprising but vital exemplar in the reception history of both the classics and epic poetry.","PeriodicalId":42325,"journal":{"name":"Womens Writing","volume":"30 1","pages":"258 - 275"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43798408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}