Women Writing at Windor

Self, Sociability, and Space, 1780-1890

Susan Kubica Howard

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Women Writing at Windsor: Self, Sociability, and Space, 1780-1890 draws on current cultural criticism to historicize and theorize the space that is the Court at Windsor in the late eighteenth century. The book argues that individually and collectively the life writings of Mary Delany, Frances Burney, Caroline Herschel, and Charlotte Papendiek constitute a multi-faceted perspective on the work done to both nurture and critique the court. Close readings of their letters and autobiographical writings within contemporary political, social, and cultural contexts reveal how these women learned to negotiate both public and private spaces there to assert agency over their lives and create a sense of community.

About the Author

Kubica Howard is Associate Professor of English & Theater Arts at Duquesne University. She teaches courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels on the novel, the literature of crime and detection, contemporary writers, and works that explore family dynamics. Dr. Howard writes on the literature and culture of the long eighteenth-century in Britain and America, and has edited works by Lennox, Scott, Edgeworth, and Burney.