Contributors
- Contributors
Paula R. Backscheider, Philpott-Stevens Eminent Scholar at Auburn University, is a former president of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and the author of several books including Daniel Defoe: His Life (1989; winner of the British Council Prize), Spectacular Politics, Reflections on Biography, and Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and their Poetry: Inventing Agency, Inventing Genre (2005; winner of the Modern Language Association Lowell Prize). Her most recent book is Elizabeth Singer Rowe and the Development of the English Novel (2013).
Bernard Capp is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Warwick and a Fellow of the British Academy. His books include When Gossips Meet: Women, Family and Neighbourhood in Early Modern England (2003) and England’s Culture Wars: Puritan Reformation and its Enemies in the Interregnum, 1649–60 (2012). Articles include “The Double Standard Revisited,” Past & Present (1999); “Bigamous Marriage in Early Modern England,” Historical Journal (2009); and ‘“Jesus Wept’ but did the Englishman?: Masculinity and Emotion in Early Modern England,” Past & Present (2014).
Vincent Carretta is Professor of English at the University of Maryland. His most recent books are Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage (2nd ed. 2014) and an edition of Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African (2015). His current project is an edition of the writings of Phillis Wheatley, to be published by Oxford University Press.
Jackie Collier is a postdoctoral researcher and part-time lecturer in social and political history of the long eighteenth century, currently teaching at Bath Spa University. Her key areas of interest are women’s agency in the long eighteenth [End Page 259] century, in particular the experience of the never-married single woman and elite female philanthropy.
Eugene R. Cunnar is Professor Emeritus of English at New Mexico State University. He is co-editor, with Jeffrey Johnson, of Discovering and (Re)Covering the Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric (2001); with James Fitzmaurice, Carol Barash, and Nancy A. Gutierrez, of Major Women Writers in Seventeenth-Century England (1996); and with Gail L. Mortimer, of Milton, the Bible, and Misogyny (1990). He has also written the article on An Collins in the Dictionary of Literary Biography (1993).
Darcy Donahue is Professor of Spanish and Women’s Studies at Miami University. Her area of specialization is the literature of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain with a focus on women writers, biography and the intersection of religion and gender. She has translated and edited the writings of Ana de San Bartolomé, a leading figure in the religious reform led by St. Teresa of Avila in the late sixteenth century (2008). In addition to her work on San Bartolomé, she has published articles on Cervantes, Saint Teresa of Avila, and Ignatius of Loyola.
Helen Draper is currently completing an interdisciplinary Ph.D. thesis on Mary Beale (1633–99) for the Institute of Historical Research and the Courtauld Institute of Art. An art historian and paintings conservator for more than twenty years, she is particularly interested in the complex relationship between artists and the objects with which they are associated, and the narratives constructed around them. The nature of women’s contribution to both art and work in the seventeenth century is central to her research.
Julie A. Eckerle is Associate Professor of English at the University of Minnesota, Morris and author of Romancing the Self in Early Modern Englishwomen’s Life Writing (2013). She has also edited, with Michelle M. Dowd, Romancing the Self in Early Modern Englishwomen’s Life Writing (2007) and is currently working on an edition of a manuscript by the seventeenth-century Englishwoman Dorothy Calthorpe.
Jeanette M. Fregulia (University of Nevada, Reno 2007) is Associate Professor of History at Carroll College in Helena, Montana. Her research interests focus on women, business, and trade in early modern Italy and the Mediterranean. [End Page 260] Publications include: “Widows, Legal Rights, and the Mercantile Economy of Early Modern Milan,” Early Modern Women, An Interdisciplinary Journal (2008); “Hortensia” and “Radegund,” Encyclopedia of the History of Feminist Thought, ed. Tiffany K. Wayne (2011); and A Rich and Tantalizing Brewing: Coffee, Trade and Patterns Socialization in the Early Modern World, under advance contract with the University of Arkansas Press.
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