Table of Contents

Cindy K. Renker

Introduction

Cornelia Niekus Moore

A Maiden’s Pastime: Susanna Elisabeth Zeidler (1657–1693)

Peter Damrau

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

Pia K. Jakobsson

Public Ambition as Moral Obligation: The Intellectual Career of Elizabeth Carter (1717–1806)

Cindy K. Renker

Madame Necker (1737–1794): Educator, Salonnière, Mother, Writer, Charity Patron

Heide Wunder

Dorothea Friderika Baldinger, née Gutbier (1743–1786): A “Woman Intellectual” in the Age of Enlightenment?

Valérie Leyh and Vera Viehöver

Sophie Schwarz (1754–1789): “Wonderful Antagonism in My Own Soul” – Annotations to Sophie Schwarz’s Travel Journal

Gudrun Loster-Schneider

Poetics, Politics, Gender and Pedagogics in Friederike Brun’s (1765–1835) Autobiography Wahrheit aus Morgenträumen (1824)

Irene Collins (†)

Jane Austen (1775–1817): A Novelist from the Parsonage

Renata Fuchs

Louise Aston (1814–1871): A Liberal Author and Feminist

Susanne Bach

“I will never have another man in this house”. The Perpetual Curate Patrick Brontë and His Perpetual Daughter Charlotte (1816–1855)

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