Established in 1903, the journal publishes peer-reviewed articles that showcase the Special Collections of The John Rylands Library, one of the finest collections of rare books, manuscripts and archives in the world. The manuscript and printed collections span five millennia and cover a wide range of subjects in more than fifty languages, including theology and philosophy; literature, drama and music; art and archaeology; science and medicine; economic, social, political, religious and military history; travel and exploration. The collections also contain the archives of companies, business associations, trade unions, charities, social organizations and religious institutions, as well as landed families. Articles are broad ranging and multi-disciplinary, enhancing the scholarship and understanding of the collections. Full length articles as well as short review pieces and notes on particular collections, exhibitions and recent acquisitions are welcome and work from early career researchers is encouraged. Articles not focused directly on the collections but concerned with the history of Manchester or of general relevance to the John Rylands Library as well as themed issues that situate research on the collections within different humanities disciplines will be published occasionally.
Contents: Writ from the Heart? Women's Life Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century(5)Pearson, Jacqueline ‘My Immense Mass of Manuscripts’: Fanny Burney as Archivist, Biographer and Autobiographer(15)Harman, Claire A Life Recovered: Mary Hamilton 1756-1816(27)Crawley, Lisa ‘She Did but Take up Old Stories’: Generic Fluidity and Women's Life Writing of the Early Eighteenth Century(47)Joule, Victoria Narrating Travel, Narrating the Self: Considering Women's Travel Writing as Life Writing(67)Kinsley, Zoë Writing Pain: Sensibility and Suffering in the Late Letters of Anna Seward and Mary Robinson(85)Cross, Ashley A Naval Wife: The Letters of Susannah Middleton(111)Wragg, Richard Sources for the History of Women in Eighteenth-Century Ireland: The Case of Dorothea Herbert's Retrospections(127)Maxwell, Jane Gender, Class and Epistolary Suffering: Narrating the Bodily Self in Women's Medical Consultation Letters to Samuel-Auguste Tissot(143)Boon, Sonja Cushions, Copy-books and Computers: Ann Griffiths (1776-1805), her Hymns and Letters and their Transmission(163)James, E. Wyn Signature Stories: Helen Timberlake's Petition to George III(185)Nash, Susan Appendix: The Text of the Petitions in Chronological Order(206)
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