Introduction: reading women, reading public and private / Diane E. Boyd and Marta Kvande -- Hanging on and hanging in : women's struggle to participate in public sphere debate / Paula R. Backscheider -- "The constant action of our lab'ring hands" : Mary Collier's demystification of work and womanhood in the early eighteenth century / Aruna Krishnamurthy -- Frances Brooke's environmental vandalism : carving sexual resistance on trees in The history of Emily Montague / Emily Smith -- A space between : prostitutes negotiating the public and the private in memoir novels of eighteenth-century France / Alistaire Tallent -- "I had rather be obscure. but I dare not" : women and methodism in the eighteenth century / Brett C. McInelly -- Frances Burney and Frances Sheridan : epistolary fiction and the public sphere / Marta Kvande -- Unspoken contracts : the carriage and women's work in Belinda / Diane E. Boyd -- "A walking ought": displacement and the public sphere in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park / Shea Stuart -- Order in the family court : maternal disruption in Chancery, Roxana, and Maria / Cheryl L. Nixon
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