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List of illustrators; List of contributors; Preface andacknowledgements; Introduction: women, writing and representation ElizabethEger, Charlotte Grant, Cliona O'Gallchoir and Penny Warburton; Part I. Womenin the Public Eye: 1. Coffee-women, The Spectator and the public sphere inthe early eighteenth century Markman Ellis; 2. Misses, murderesses andmagdalens: women in the public eye Caroline Gonda; Part II. Consuming Arts:3. The choice of Hercules: the polite arts and 'female excellence' ineighteenth-century London Charlotte Grant; 4. Representing culture: The NineLiving Muses of Great Britain (1779) Elizabeth Eger; 5. A moral purchase:femininity, commerce and abolition, 1788-1792 Kate Davies; Part III. LearnedLadies: From Bluestockings to Cosmopolitan Intellectuals: 6. Bluestockingfeminism Gary Kelly; 7. Catharine Macaulay: history, republicanism and thepublic sphere Susan Wiseman; 8. Gender, nation and revolution: MariaEdgeworth and Stephanie-Felicite de Genlis Cliona O Gallchoir; 9. Salons,Alps and Cordilleras: Helen Maria Williams, Alex von Humboldt and thediscourse of Romantic travel Nigel Leask; Part IV. The Female Subject: 10.The most public sphere of all: the family Sylvana Tomaselli; 11. Theorisingpublic opinion: Elizabeth Hamilton's model of self, sympathy and societyPenny Warburton; 12. Intimate connections: scandalous memoirs and epistolaryindiscretion Mary Jacobus; Bibliography; Index.