Description
Mary Hays worked alone in compiling the 302 entries that make up Female Biography (1803). By contrast, producing a modern, critical edition of the work relied on the expertise of 168 scholars across 18 countries. Essays in this collection focus on the exhaustive research, editorial challenges and innovative responses involved in this project.
Table of Contents
1. The Invention of Female Biography Gina Luria Walker
Part 1: Forgotten Women
2. Well Represented or Missing in Action? Queens, Queenship and Mary Hays
Elena Woodacre
3. The contribution of Isabella de Rosares and Isabella de Josa to the Development of Learning for Women in the Sixteenth Century
Maria Jesus Lorenzo-Modia
4. 'Anonymous' The University Women in Hays's Female Biography
Marta Cavazza and Koren Whipp
Part 2: Omissions and Revisions
5. Commonwealths of Women: Republican Biography and Feminist Practice in The Female Biography and Project Continua
Rebecca Nesvet
6. Hays's Changes to her Classical Sources to Promote Female Agency
Ian Plant
7. Hays's Surprises
Mary Spongberg and Lorna Barrow
8. Feminist Historical Recovery: Moving the 'Others' from Margin to Centre
Thelma Armstrong
Part 3: Female Biography and Feminist History Traditions
9. Agrippa to Venturia: Ancient and Modern Companions to Female Biography
Peter Keegan
10. Mary Hays and the Imagined Female Communities of Early Modern Europe
Amanda Capern
11. Four Types of Incongruity: Adventures in Editing the Work of Tullia d'Aragona
Elizabeth Pallitto
12. Women of the Civil War: Oliver Cromwell's Wife and Daughters
Alan Marshall
Part 4: Contemporary Uses of Female Biography
13. Post-feminist Uses of Female Biography
Whitney Mannies
14. Female Biography: Towards Solidarity
Daniella Polyak
