Women and Material Culture, 1660–1830

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Women and their Jewels

Chapter 3 Fanny’s Pockets: Cotton, Consumption and Domestic Economy, 1780–1850

Chapter 4 ‘Changing her gown and setting her head to rights’: New Shops, New Hats and New Identities

Chapter 5 Sculpting in Tiaras: Grand Duchess Maria Fedorovna as a Producer and Consumer of the Arts

Chapter 6 Pride and Prejudice: Eighteenth-century Women Sculptors and their Material Practices

Chapter 7 A Female Sculptor and Connoisseur: Artistic Self-fashioning and the Exposure of Connoisseurship, Collecting and Concupiscence

Chapter 8 The Taste for Bringing the Outside in’: Nationalism, Gender and Landscape Wallpaper (1700-1825)

Chapter 9 Taihu Tatlers: Aesthetic Translation in the China Trade

Chapter 10 White Slavery: Hannah More, Women and Fashion

Chapter 12 The Book as Cosmopolitan Object: Women’s Publishing, Collecting and Anglo-German Exchange

Chapter 13 ‘Books without which I cannot write’: How Did Eighteenth-century Women Writers Get the Books They Read?