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Letter: Mary G. Smith to Ida M. Tarbell, June 20, 1918
No full textHandwritten letter of three pages, signed (Mrs. E.G.) Mary G. Smit
Frank G. Carpenter to Mary Edwards Walker
No full textCorrespondence from Frank G. Carpenter to Mary Edwards Walker asking for an interview for the American Press Association regarding the women's dress reform. 1 letter
G. Owthwaite Spencer to Mary Edwards Walker
No full textCorrespondence from G. Owthwaite Spencer to Mary Edwards Walker regarding an invitation to visit Dr. Baker Brown at his operations and private home. 1 letter
Elihu G. Holland to Mary Edwards Walker
No full textCorrespondence from E. G. Holland to Mary Edwards Walker regarding a patent presented to Holland. On the verso of A Prospectus. 1 letter
Women's life writing 1760-1830 : spiritual selves, sexual characters, and revolutionary subjects
No full textPhDThis thesis uses print and manuscript sources to analyse and interpret women's life
writing at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries. I
explore printed works by Catharine Phillips, Mary Dudley, Priscilla Hannah Gurney,
Ann Freeman, Elizabeth Steele, Mary Robinson, Helen Maria Williams, Mary
Wollstonecraft, Grace Dalrymple Elliott, and Charlotte West and discuss the
manuscripts of Mary Fletcher, Mary Tooth, Sarah Ryan, and Elizabeth Fox. Of these
sources, five have never been analysed in the critical literature and six have received
little attention. Considered as a group, this large corpus of texts offers new insights
into the personal and political implications of different models of female selfhood and
social being.
In chapter one, I compare the religious identities presented in the spiritual
autobiographies of Quakers and Methodists. For these women, religious identification
provides a powerful sense of social belonging and enables public participation.
However, it may also lead to a loss of self in the demand for religious conformity and
self-abnegation. In chapter two, I consider the life writing of late eighteenth-century
courtesans. These women adapt available models of femininity and female authorship
in order to establish themselves as socially connected subjects. However, their
narratives also reveal that dependence on the sexual and literary marketplace puts
female selfhood under pressure. In chapter three, I explore the eyewitness accounts of
British women in the French Revolution. I argue that, for these writers, connecting
personal identity to political history is an enabling source of self-definition but it also
exposes them to the risks of self-fragmentation.
In my focus on the social function of women's life writing, I present an alternative to
the traditional alignment of the eighteenth-century autobiographical subject with the
autonomous self of individualism. These narratives allow us to reconsider the
productive and problematic dialectic between personal expression and representative
selfhood, self-authorship and collective narratives, and individualism and social
being. They suggest that women's life writing has the potential to be both the self-expression
of a unique heroine and the self-inscription of a politicised subject
George Maddick to Mary Edwards Walker
No full textCorrespondence from George Maddick to Mary Edwards Walker regarding Maddick's apology for not being able to interview G. Dornbusch. 1 letter
Double Irish Chain quilt, by Mary Ellen Gardner Gardner
No full textImage of Double Irish Chain quilt created in 1930 by Mary Ellen Gardner Gardner. Also includes questionnaires describing the quilt completed by Debra G. Proctor as part of the Utah Quilt Guild\u27s documentation days held from 1988-1994. Debra inherited the quilt from Afton Gardner in 1984; Mary made quilts for pleasure, Therapy, and out of necessit
Letter from Mary G. Merlehan to Hagan
No full textHolograph letter from Mary G. Merlehan, Newtown House, Moone (County Kildare), to Hagan, with season's greetings and news of herself and the family and friends including Kevin, Kevie, and Willie Walshe who got married
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