One of our amazing volunteers, Jessica Secmezsoy-Urquhart, has researched and created the very first episode of our Great Wee Listens podcast. In this episode, Jessica charts the history of women’s libraries and spaces. Part One is available below and you can find parts two and three over on itunes.
Bibliography for Great Wee Listens Episode 1
Reformation – Early Modern:
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Merry E. Wiesner, The Reformation of the Women,” p. 148-149
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John Calvin, “A Sermon of M. Iohn Caluine upon the Epistle of Saint Paul, to Titus. Online: http://www.covenanter.org/JCalvin/titussermons/srmtts11.htm;
Thomas Laqueur, “The Cultural Origins of Popular Literacy in England 1500‐1850”, Oxford Review of Education, 2:3, (1976), pp. 255-275
Lowell Green, “The Education of Women in the Reformation”, History of Education Quarterly, Vol. 19, No. 1, Women’s Influence on Education (Spring, 1979), pp. 93-116, 96-106
Lynnette McGrath, Subjectivity and Women’s Poetry in Early Modern England: Why on the Ridge Should She Desire to Go, (UK: Routledge, 2017)
Marshall Soules, “Jürgen Habermas and the Public Sphere”. Media Studies.ca
Nancy Fraser, “Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Contribution to the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy”, Social Text, Duke University Press, 25 (26), (1990), p. 56–80
Jurgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society, Thomas Burger, (Cambridge Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1989) p. 30-31,57
Steven Kale, French Salons: High Society and Political Sociability from the Old Regime to the Revolution of 1848 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006) p. 2, 9
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Dena Goodman, “Filial Rebellion in the Salon: Madame Geoffrin and Her Daughter”, French Historical Studies, 16, no. 1 (1989), pp. 28-47, p. 37
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Evelyn Gordon Bodek, “Salonnières and the Bluestockings : Educated Obsolescence and Germinating Feminism”, Feminist Studies, Vol. 3 No. 3/4 (1976), p. 186
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Jane Donawerth, “Conversation and the Boundaries of Public Discourse in Rhetorical Theory by Renaissance Women”. Rhetorica. 16 (2): (1992), pp. 181–199
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Densie Yim, “Le gout de la nation: The Influence of Women in Forming French and Foreign Taste”, Australian Journal of French Studies, 44, no. 3 (2007): pp. 221-237, p. 228,229,230;
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William Burns, The Enlightenment: History, Documents, and Key Questions, (ABC-CLIO, 2015), p. 5, 103
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Mark Gambier-Parry, Madame Necker: Her Family and Her Friends, (London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1913), p. 175
Memoirs of Madame de Remusat, trans. Cashel Hoeyand John Lillie, p. 407
George Saintsbury, “Staël, Madame de”. In Chisholm, Hugh, Encyclopædia Britannica, 25 (11th ed.) Cambridge University Press, (1911), pp. 750–752
George Sand: Histoire de ma vie, vol. I, Paris, 15 April 1847 (1st. ed. 1856), 274 p., Chap. 2: “Madame Dupin de Chenonceaux”, pp. 61-64
Steegmuller, A Woman, A Man and Two Kingdoms: The story of Madame d’Épinay and the Abbé Galiani, (New York 1991), p.14
Simon Schama, Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, (New York: Vintage Books, 1989), p. 76
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Joan b. Landes, Women and the Public Sphere in the Age of the French Revolution, (1988), p. 113
Thomas Okey, The Story of Paris, Library of Alexandria,(1925) p. 232
Anne Scott Sorensen, Taste Manners and Attitudes-The Bel Esprit and Literary Salon in Scandinavia, pp. 122-150 in Christina Carlsson Wetterberg and others, Is There A Nordic Feminism? (London: UCL Press, 2005), p. 139
Jennifer S. Uglow, The Macmillan Dictionary of Women’s Biography (1982), Alexandra Mavrokordatou (Greek: Αλεξάνδρα Μαυροκορδάτου; 1605–1684)
Svante Norrhem, Kvinnor vid maktens sida : 1632-1772 [Women by the side of power: 1632-1772], (Nordic Academic Press,2007)
Michael Meyer, Origins of the Modern Jew: Jewish Identity and European Culture in Germany, 1749-1824, (Wayne State University Press, 1979), p. 85
Steven Lowenstein, The Berlin Jewish Community: Enlightenment, Family and Crisis, 1770-1830, (Oxford University Press, 1994)
Deborah Sadie Hertz, Jewish High Society In Old Regime Berlin, (Syracuse University Press, 2005)
Dominique Godineau, The Women of Paris and Their French Revolution, (Berkeley: University of California, 1998), p. 105
John Cole, Between the Queen and Cabby, (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2011), pp. 28–29
Camille Naish, Death Comes to The Maiden: Sex and Execution, 1431–1933, (Routledge, 1991), p. 137
The French Revolution and Human Rights: A Brief Documentary History, trans, ed by Lynn Hunt (Boston/New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 1996), p. 122–23
Albert Soboul, Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution, (PUF:1989), p. 196
Susan Dalton, “Gender and the Shifting Ground of Revolutionary Politics: The Case of Madame Roland”, Canadian Journal of History, 36, no. 2 (2001): pp. 259–83
Darline Levy and Harriet Applewhite, A Political Revolution for Women? The Case of Paris, In The French Revolution: conflicting interpretations. (5th ed. Malabar, Fla.: Krieger Pub. Co., 2002), pp. 317–46, p. 319–20, 324
Lisa Beckstrand, Deviant Women of the French Revolution and the Rise of Feminism, (Associated University Press, 2009) , p. 17-20
Gregory Fremont-Barnes (2007). Encyclopedia of the age of political revolutions and new ideologies, 1760-1815, (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007), p. 365
Claire Lacombe, The French Revolution and Human Rights: A Brief Documentary History, translated, edited, and with an introduction by Lynn Hunt (Boston/New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 1996), p. 135–138
Circulating Libraries and Blue Stocking England Early Modern
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Lee Erickson, “The Economy of Novel Reading: Jane Austen and the Circulating Library”, Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 30, No. 4, (Autumn, 1990), pp. 573-590
James Raven, “Libraries for Sociability: The Advance of the Subscription Library” in The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland Volume 2: 1640–1850, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), p. 251
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Paul Kaufman, “The Community Library: A Chapter in English Social History”, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 57, No. 7 (1967), pp. 1-67 , 60
Modern:1800s-Now
Matthew Battles, Library: An Unquiet History, (New York, N.Y.: Norton, 2004), p. 135
Devom Lemire, A Historiographical Survey of Literacy in Britain between 1780 and 1830. p. 258-259
Ruth Hoberman, “Women in the British Museum Reading Room during the Late-Nineteenth and Early- Twentieth Centuries: From Quasi- to Counterpublic”, Feminist Studies, Vol. 28, No. 3 (Autumn, 2002), pp. 489-512
Lewis C. Roberts, “Disciplining and Disinfecting Working-Class Readers in the Victorian Public Library”, Victorian Literature and Culture, Vol. 26, No. 1 (1998), pp. 105-132
Abigail A. Van Slyck, “The Lady and the Library Loafer: Gender and Public Space in Victorian America”, Gendered Spaces and Aesthetics, 31, (4), (Winter, 1996), pp. 221-242;
Evelyn Kerslake , “The Feminization of Librarianship: The writings of Margaret Reed” in A. Black & P. Hoare, eds., The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), pp. 548-555
Julia Taylor McCain, “Women and Libraries” in Alastair Black and Peter Hoare, eds., The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland, Vol. 3, 1850-2000, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), pp. 543-7, p.543-544
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Dictionary of British Women’s Organizations, 1825-1960, eds. David Doughan and Peter Gordon, (UK: Routledge, 2014)
Elizabeth Crawford, The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866-1928
Gillian Thomas , A Position to Command Respect: Women and the Eleventh Britannica, (Scarecrow Press, 1992) , p. 127
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