Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments vii
3. Contents ix
4. Illustrations xi
5. Preface xiii
6. Introduction 1
7. PART I Performing Gender in Speech
8. CHAPTER 1 Women and Language in the Eighteenth Century 21
9. CHAPTER 2 Polite and Plain Language; 01; Amelia Opie "Quakerized" 64
10. CHAPTER 3 Acting, Text, and Correct Display: Sarah Siddons to Fanny Price 98
11. PART II Reading and Speech
12. CHAPTER 4 Reading and Domesticity Among the Burneys and Other Families 135
13. CHAPTER 5 Reading Austen, Practicing Speech 180
14. Notes 217
15. Bibliography 235
16. Index 255