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Women writers of the long eighteenth century. In a letter to a female friend, Jonathan Swift wrote of Eliza Haywood, author of. 8220;Mrs. Haywood I have heard of as a stupid, infamous, scribbling woman, but have not seen any of her productions.”. Infamous, indeed. Thank you, Swift, for the provocative title. While the likes of Swift and Alexander Pope participated in an elitist, boys club writing group known as the Scribblerians. They were rather free and coarse with the term scribbler. You are commentin...
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Scribbling Resources | Infamous Scribblers
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Women writers of the long eighteenth century. Under construction, but this page is an archive of links that will give you various resources in:. The Eighteenth Century in Contemporary Culture. Scribbling Resources and Therapy for the 21st Century. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). Share on Facebook (Opens in new window). Click to email (Opens in new window). Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Join 167 other followers.
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Vindications in America: Judith Sargent Murray’s “On the Equality of the Sexes” | Infamous Scribblers
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Women writers of the long eighteenth century. Vindications in America: Judith Sargent Murray’s “On the Equality of the Sexes”. Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Women. Stemming from a draft that she had been tinkering with since 1779, Sargent Murray’s essay covers many of the same themes and arguments as Wollstonecraft’s text, although this earlier work has sadly been neglected in conversations concerning eighteenth century thoughts on women’s rights. A collection including essays. Along...
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Domestic Violence in the Past and Present: The Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge | Infamous Scribblers
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Women writers of the long eighteenth century. Domestic Violence in the Past and Present: The Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge. Some Accounts of the Fore Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge. Allows for an exploration of domestic abuse in the eighteenth century and how this issue functions on a similar level in our own time. If you wish to know more about Elizabeth Ashbridge, you can read her narrative in its entirety here:. Early Americas Digital Archive. National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Auste...
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About the Scribblers | Infamous Scribblers
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Women writers of the long eighteenth century. Creator / Editor / Writer. This is me and my literary love, Frances Burney. Un/Healthy Constitutions: Accounting for Popular Care in the British Imagination, 1650 – 1830. When not scribbling for scholarly motives, I generally spend my time reading and secretly writing historical and fantasy fiction, debating British and American popular culture (especially comedy) with my very English husband, playing with my two very lively dogs, and going to outrageous kara...
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The Beauty of Fake “Savages”; Or, Charlotte Lennox’s The Life of Harriot Stuart, Written by Herself | Infamous Scribblers
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Women writers of the long eighteenth century. The Beauty of Fake Savages ; Or, Charlotte Lennox’s The Life of Harriot Stuart, Written by Herself. Little is known about Lennox before her publication debut in the 1750s, and few images of her are available. Charlotte Lennox could arguably be described as one of the most famous (or infamous) female authors of the eighteenth century. Her second novel, The Female Quixote. And, according to anecdote, once threw her a party where he crowned her with laurels.
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Being Thankful for the Pain: Affliction in Mary Rowlandson’s Captivity | Infamous Scribblers
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Women writers of the long eighteenth century. Being Thankful for the Pain: Affliction in Mary Rowlandson’s Captivity. It was definitely very grim). Rowlandson’s The Sovereignty and Goodness of God. In her last paragraph, Rowlandson explicitly connects her captive experience with the idea of affliction. She closes her text by writing:. Before I knew what affliction meant, I was ready to sometimes wish for it. Loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every Son whom he receiveth. Hanover, NH: Dartmouth UP, 1997.
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Heckling Privilege: What Austen’s Emma Can Teach Us About the Politics of Joking | Infamous Scribblers
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Women writers of the long eighteenth century. Heckling Privilege: What Austen’s Emma Can Teach Us About the Politics of Joking. Miss Bates reacts to a joke told at her expense. But is it heckling? Is Albright’s response heckling? Is critique aimed at Conan voiced by several feminist writers a form of virtual, rather than live, heckling? I can’t think so. When it is at the expense of reifying privilege or erasing marginalized people’s sexualities? Before anyone can get a word in, Miss Bates “exclaim...
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#CancelSwift: On Satire, Infamous Scribbling Women, and (Not So) Recent Politics | Infamous Scribblers
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Women writers of the long eighteenth century. CancelSwift: On Satire, Infamous Scribbling Women, and (Not So) Recent Politics. A Modest Proposal,. 8220;It’s satire,” white-man-splained one journalist to Park via Huffington Post. “Do you not understand the point of satire? Suey Park being interviewed on HuffPost Live. After all, Colbert supporters defend him against charges of racism–it’s satire! 8216;s satire goes over the line. My mind immediately jumped to Swift–how could it not? In comedy, while for a...
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Speak Freely: Remembering Maria W. Stewart | Infamous Scribblers
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Women writers of the long eighteenth century. Speak Freely: Remembering Maria W. Stewart. Stewart wrote two small pamphlets: Religion and the Pure Principles of Morality, the Sure Foundation which We Build. 1831) and The Meditation from the Pen of Mrs. Maria Stewart. As an educator, I can appreciate such a sentiment. Also as an educator, I can lament the fact that such a trailblazer has been largely forgotten. In the many (many) general literary and rhetorical anthologies I own, she appears in only o...
