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Introduction - gender and women's history; musing on muses -representing the actress as "artist" in British art of the late eighteenthand early nineteenth centuries; distant prospects and smaller circles -questions of authority in Maria Edgeworth's Irish writings; scholarship andsensibility - Anna Jameson and Sydney Morgan in Siren Land; Mary Shelley aseditor of the poems of Percy Shelley; women and education in nineteenthcentury England; Many Cowden Clarke's "Labours of Love"; women historians anddocumentary research - Lucy Aikin, Agnes Strickland, Mary Anne Everett Green,and Lucy Toulmin Smith; Margaret Oliphant, "mightier than the mightiest ofher sex"; "Hints on Household Taste" and "The Art of Decoration" - authors,their audience and gender in interior design; women, translation andempowerment; "I Love My Sex" - two late-Victorian pulpit women.