‘The Material Culture of Women’s Writing’ – a special issue of Women’s Writing ISSN 0969-9082
Editor: Caroline Franklin
The AHRC-funded Elizabeth Montagu Letters Project
www.elizabethmontagunetwork.co.uk
From salons to closets and glamour to grammar, to quills, desks and inkwells, this special issue of Women’s Writing will explore the tools, spaces and environments of women’s writing between the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries and aims to create new connections between texts and material objects. It takes as its inspiration the figure of Elizabeth Montagu, ‘Queen of the Bluestockings’ (1718-1800), a voracious writer, Shakespeare critic, coal owner, cultural patron and bluestocking salonnière, who was the hub of an immense circle of women’s scribal culture intersecting with print publishing. Topics may include but are not limited to: epistolary culture, networks, penmanship, libraries, copying machines, manuals, paper, postal system and digitization.
Please submit articles of 4,000-7,000 words to Professor Caroline Franklin at Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea, SA2 8PP, or to [log in to unmask] by 31 August 2013. Details of the journal’s house style can be found on the Women’s Writing web site http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/0999082.asp
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