Title Women in eighteenth-century Scotland : intimate, intellectual and public lives / edited by Katie Barclay and Deborah Simonton

Published Farnham Ashgate, [2013]

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Description xi, 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Contents List of illustrations -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction / Katie Barclay and Deborah Simonton -- Intimate lives -- Female birthing customs and beliefs / Anne Cameron -- Love and courtship in eighteenth-century Scotland / Katie Barclay -- When a lass goes "so round", with her "tua sides high" : oral culture and women's views on illegitimacy / Svetla Baloutzova -- Family, politics and reform in Margaret Cullen's home : a novel (1802) / Jane Rendall -- Intellectual lives -- The value of feminine culture : community involvement in the provision of schooling for girls in eighteenth-century Scotland / Lindy Moore -- The depiction of literacy, schooling and education in the autobiographical writings of eighteenth-century Scottish women / Betty Hagglund -- Making mechanics modern : Mary Somerville's translation of Laplace's mécanique céleste / Margaret Carlyle and James Wallace -- Tourist sites and travellers : women and late eighteenth-century Scottish tourism / Pam Perkins -- Scarred, suffering bodies : eighteenth-century Scottish women travellers on slavery, sentiment, and sensibility / Corey E. Andrews -- Public lives -- Women, land and power : a case for continuity / Rosalind Carr -- Negotiating the economy of the eighteenth-century Scottish town : female entrepreneurs claim their place / Deborah Simonton -- The display and trading of fashionable dress and its impact on women in Scotland's growing urban centres, c1780-1825 / Louisa Cross -- "Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions" : criminal women in eighteenth-century Scotland / Anne-Marie Kilday -- Guide to further reading -- Index Analysis Australian Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Women -- Scotland -- History -- 18th century. Women -- Scotland -- Intellectual life -- 18th century. Women -- Education -- Scotland -- History -- 18th century. Housewives -- Scotland -- History -- 18th century. SUBJECT Scotland -- Social life and customs -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85118872 Author Barclay, Katie, editor Simonton, Deborah, 1948- editor LC no. 2013013629 ISBN 9781409450467 (hardback)

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