Elizabeth Singer Rowe (1674–1737): From Parsonage to Bestselling Author

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. A Maiden’s Pastime: Susanna Elisabeth Zeidler (1657–1693) 11
5. Elizabeth Singer Rowe (1674–1737): From Parsonage to Bestselling Author 31
6. Public Ambition as Moral Obligation: The Intellectual Career of Elizabeth Carter (1717–1806) 51
7. Madame Necker (1737–1794): Educator, Salonnière, Mother, Writer, Charity Patron 69
8. Dorothea Friderika Baldinger, née Gutbier (1743–1786): A “Woman Intellectual” in the Age of Enlightenment? 87
9. Sophie Schwarz (1754–1789): “Wonderful Antagonism in My Own Soul” – Annotations to Sophie Schwarz’s Travel Journal 107
10. Poetics, Politics, Gender and Pedagogics in Friederike Brun’s (1765–1835) Autobiography Wahrheit aus Morgenträumen (1824) 131
11. Jane Austen (1775–1817): A Novelist from the Parsonage 153
12. Louise Aston (1814–1871): A Liberal Author and Feminist 169
13. “I will never have another man in this house”. The Perpetual Curate Patrick Brontë and His Perpetual Daughter Charlotte (1816–1855) 195
14. About the Authors 219