List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction. Brianna E. Robertson-Kirkland (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, UK) and Louise Duckling (independent scholar, UK) Prologue. Power Postcard 1: Queen Mary I and La Peregrina, Valerie Schutte (independent scholar, US) 1. Maria Theresa and Catherine II: Women rulers transmitting unexpected gender notions far beyond their realms, Ruth Dawson (University of Hawaii at M a noa, US) Part 1. Culture Postcard 2: The 188-page letter-memoir: Mary Anne Canning's life writing as a defense of her motherhood, Rachel Bynoth (Bath Spa University, UK) 2. Imagining England: Recovering Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy's Memoirs of the court of England (1707), Daisy Winter ( Northumbria University, UK) 3. The racial politics of the Chilean family in Maria Graham's Journal of a Residence in Chile (1824), Valentina Aparicio (Queen Mary University of London, UK) 4.
"Today, two vent'rous females spread the sail": The presence of female travelers in the works of Mariana Starke, Eva Lippold (University of Reading, UK) Part 2. Knowledge Postcard 3: "A new world of ideas": Knowledge exchange in Helen Maria Williams's translation of Alexander von Humboldt's Personal Narrative (1814-29), Louise Duckling (independent scholar, UK) 5. Madeleine de Scudéry, Aphra Behn, and translation: Using the "Carte de Tendre" for cross-channel communication of women's ideas, Amelia Mills (Nottingham Trent University, UK) 6. " Suns , wich to some other Worlds give Light ": Transnational philosophies of the universe in Margaret Cavendish's poems and letters, Masuda Qureshi independent scholar, UK) 7. Science, art, and knowledge: Nancy Anne Kingsbury Wollstonecraft and the illustration of Cuban flora, Elisa Garrido ( Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain) Part 3. Art Postcard 4: Collecting travel memories: Charlotte Bonaparte's family album, Arlene Leis (independent scholar, UK) 8. Aletheia Talbot and the art of Italy: England's first female collector, Breeze Barrington (independent scholar, UK) 9. Back through time and beyond Britain: Revealing polytheistic imagination and British imperial resolve in Eleanor Coade's Artificial Stone products, 1769-1821, Miriam al Jamil (independent scholar, UK) Part 4.
Music Postcard 5: Mrs Macglashan of Jamaica, Andrew Bull (independent scholar, UK) 10. "quite different from what it is abroad": Elizabeth Wynne's musical exchanges, Penelope Cave (independent scholar, UK) 11. The Murrays of Warrawang: Scots in Australia, Brianna E. Robertson-Kirkland (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, UK) Epilogue Postcard 6: Felicia Hemans, the Monument of Zalongo, and the "dance" of a moment in history, Trijit Acharyya (independent scholar, India) Selected Bibliography List of Contributors Index.