Women and the book in Britain's long eighteenth century

Levy, Michelle

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“…A prevalent line of investigation has been how women's poetry was influenced by the intersecting manuscript and print cultures within which it was produced. Such research reflects the general growth in feminist book history scholarship within eighteenth‐century studies (see Havens, 2019; Levy, 2020, pp. 4–5).…”

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Recent scholarship on eighteenth‐century women's poetry

Keown¹

2021

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The eighteenth century was a period of vital importance for the development of women's poetry: with each passing decade, more women began to read and write verse in every available genre and form. Since the late 1980s, this poetry has become increasingly accessible, and individual women poets have been thoroughly integrated into academic research and teaching. This essay provides an overview of recent scholarship on eighteenth‐century women's poetry. It begins by outlining broad trends in women's literary history which have shaped the field, before highlighting the unique challenges that women's poetry presents. It then offers a more focused survey of recently published scholarship, with an emphasis on the last 2 decades. Emerging research themes span from the growth in book history and manuscript investigations, to the resurgence of formalist interpretation. Studies of women's poetry have allowed scholars not only to reassess women's contributions to eighteenth‐century literary history, but to reconsider the very nature of that history—by re‐envisioning how and why poetry was written, innovated, circulated, published, read, and valued within the period. The essay concludes by proposing future directions for the field, including the need for continued recovery work, more critical editions and monograph studies, new methodologies, cross‐period dialogues with scholars of early modern and Romantic women's poetry, and practical initiatives to support precarious early career researchers.

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2021

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Printed by Alice Broade: The Career of York’s First Female Printer, 1661–1680

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Griffin²

2022

Print Culture, Agency, and Regionality in the Hand Press Period

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Alice Broad was York's first female printer and, for a time, the only printer in York following the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1661. Very little is known about Broad, and this chapter draws on archival research from the holdings of York Minster Library, which houses eleven of her seventeen extant publications. Broad's career also underwrites the later development of York's print trades. Alice's tools and presses went with Hannah Broad into her marriage with John White and became the foundation of his own extremely successful printing business.Alice Broad was among White's first collaborators in York and both she and her daughter would have provided the future 'printer to their Royal Majesties' (William and Mary) with materials, expertise, and connections in the regional trade. The unique position of York forms an important backdrop to Broad's career as a city that is both central and regional. This chapter is the first in-depth exploration of her career in the history of York's print trades. period by Thomas Broad 1 , a man whose success in York was opportunistic. When the Civil War sent the King's court and the King's printer, Stephen Bulkley 2 , further north to Newcastle, Broad filled the gap made in the turning fortunes of York's print trade. Thomas Broad left standard traces in the public records: he was born in Gloucestershire and completed an apprenticeship in London before moving his business to York. By 1650, Broad had established his press on Stonegate as well as a shop 'near Common-Hall-Gates' near the Guildhall, the seat of power for the Parliamentarian government, for whom he printed; he was admitted gratuitously to the freedom of the city in 1647 (Sessions, 1998, 4; 1976, 21). The imprint in the 1661 sermon, however, heralded a change: it was 'Printed by ALICE BROADE', with her name in all capital letters (the only time she would do this; see figure 2.1 below). Following Thomas's death and until Bulkley's return to York in 1664, Alice Broad was the city's sole printer. Based on extensive research in regional (York Minster Archives and the Borthwick Institute) and national archives (British Library), this chapter is the first detailed scholarly consideration of Alice Broad and her role in the printing history of York.

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How and Why to Do Things with Eighteenth-Century Manuscripts

Levy

Schellenberg

2021

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This Element examines eighteenth-century manuscript forms, their functions in the literary landscape of their time, and the challenges and practices of manuscript study today. Drawing on both literary studies and book history, Levy and Schellenberg offer a guide to the principal forms of literary activity carried out in handwritten manuscripts produced in the first era of print dominance, 1730-1820. After an opening survey of sociable literary culture and its manuscript forms, numerous case studies explore what can be learned from three manuscript types: the verse miscellany, the familiar correspondence, and manuscripts of literary works that were printed. A final section considers issues of manuscript remediation up to the present, focusing particularly on digital remediation. The Element concludes with a brief case study of the movement of Phillis Wheatley's poems between manuscript and print. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Women and the book in Britain's long eighteenth century

Cited by 3 publications

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Recent scholarship on eighteenth‐century women's poetry

Recent scholarship on eighteenth‐century women's poetry

Printed by Alice Broade: The Career of York’s First Female Printer, 1661–1680

How and Why to Do Things with Eighteenth-Century Manuscripts

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