The eighteenth-century salon played an important role in shaping literary culture, while both
creating and sustaining transnational intellectual networks. Focusing on archival materials …

The daughter of one of Britain's longest-serving Prime Ministers, Mary Gladstone was a
notable musician, hostess of one of the most influential political salons in late-Victorian …

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the literary lecture arrived on London's cultural
scene as an influential critical medium and popular social event. It flourished for two …

This survey synthesizes and examines existing scholarship on women's practices and
positions within eighteenth‐century British book culture. Since feminist scholarship began in …

'Will you write in my album?'Many Romantic poets were asked this question by women who
collected contributions in their manuscript books. Those who obliged included Byron, Scott …

The expansion of research into the history of women and gender since the 1970s has
changed the face of history. Using the insights of feminist theory and of historians of women …

Names: Lewis, Elizabeth Franklin, 1964–editor.| Bolufer Peruga, Mónica, editor.| Jaffe,
Catherine Marie, 1958–editor. Title: Routledge companion to the Hispanic …

The rapid rise of the digital humanities over the past decade has trans-formed literary study,
helping us to discern broader patterns in print culture and media history. Franco Moretti's …

This new biography of Lady Blessington, the first in more than eighty years, illuminates the
private and public life of this important but neglected salonnière and author. This study …

Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood is the first of its kind to historicise childhood in
the English-speaking world; at present no historical series on children/childhood exists …