The Female Mind: Scottish Enlightenment Femininity and the World of Letters. A Case Study of the Women of the Fletcher of Saltoun Family in the Mid-Eighteenth Century

Glover, Katharine

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“…107 her cousin, the writer Henry Mackenzie. 112 While these women discussed contemporary ideas and often commented on the first drafts of key Enlightenment texts, a close analysis of their correspondence highlights the extent to which they absorbed the belief that women were to enable men, in this case in their intellectual writings, rather than participating as equals. As Glover notes, women were expected to read with feeling, not intellect.…”

Section: Fair Intellectual Club In Edinburgh: In a Letter To A Honourmentioning

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Women, love and power in Enlightenment Scotland

Barclay

Carr

2017

Women's History Review

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Section: Fair Intellectual Club In Edinburgh: In a Letter To A Honourmentioning

confidence: 99%

Women, love and power in Enlightenment Scotland

Barclay

Carr

2017

Women's History Review

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“…77 Work for the modern period has recently been complemented by Katherine Glover's research on eighteenth century girls' education in private homes and Moore's work on early girls' schools, which demonstrate the investment in girl's education as a marker of a civilised society, but also their role in reinforcing gender roles. 78 This educational backdrop perhaps suggests that Scottish women should have been engaged in publishing and the intellectual public sphere from an earlier period than in many European countries, but in fact, the picture is more complicated. On the one hand, research into women's writings from the medieval period onwards is increasingly fruitful, with anthologies of women's spiritual writings, emphasising their role in the creation of poetry and song.…”

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The State of Scottish History: Gender

Barclay¹,

Cheadle²,

Gordon³

2013

The Scottish Historical Review

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In Scotland, the exploitation of gender history's potential to enact a fundamental paradigm shift in historical enquiry is a relatively recent endeavour. In 1990, the paucity of printed scholarship on women was such that in their pioneering collection of essays on the gendered division of labour in industrialising Scotland, Eleanor Gordon and Esther Breitenbach decried the 'enormous disjuncture between research and interest on the one hand and published material on the other'. 1 Within medieval and early modern scholarship, the situation was similarly bleak, in 1995 Elizabeth Ewan declaring starkly 'we still know little about early Scottish women'. 2 Approximately twenty years later, the picture is dramatically altered, with an emerging consciousness that gender history in Scotland is reaching maturity. The past two decades have witnessed the gradual accumulation of a corpus of wide-ranging and innovative research, exploring the material realities and discursive contexts of Scots women and men's lives across all time periods. Burgeoning research communities have been facilitated by the development of an institutional and committee-level infrastructure, with in 1995 the formation of the Scottish Women's History Network, now Women's History Scotland, and in 2008 the establishment of the Centre for Gender History at the University of Glasgow, currently hosting the prestigious international journal Gender and History. In addition, two new reference works, Gender in Scottish History since 1700 and a Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women, both published in 2006, are fulfilling a valuable synthesising role and bringing the arguments and concerns of gender history to a wider audience. 3 The objective of this article is to provide a useful synthesis of recent research for those interested in employing gender as a category of historical analysis, focusing on the key themes of politics, imperialism, work, family life, sexuality, literature and religion. By no means exhaustive, it aspires to highlight the subject matter within these themes that appears to

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Cultural Conflict and Versions of Censorship in Post-reformation Scottish Theatre

Brown

2024

The Palgrave Handbook of Theatre Censorship

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The Female Mind: Scottish Enlightenment Femininity and the World of Letters. A Case Study of the Women of the Fletcher of Saltoun Family in the Mid-Eighteenth Century

Cited by 6 publications

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Women, love and power in Enlightenment Scotland

Women, love and power in Enlightenment Scotland

The State of Scottish History: Gender

Cultural Conflict and Versions of Censorship in Post-reformation Scottish Theatre

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