Jane Magrath

Standard Name: Magrath, Jane

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Elizabeth Carter
The reviewers of this collection were appreciative; the Critical's high praise included, however, heavy emphasis on gender.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
12 (1762): 180-3
This monthly number of the Critical appeared with its date (1762) misprinted as 1761...
Literary responses Elizabeth Montagu
EM 's four-year correspondence with the brilliant, witty, difficult, and rather intimidating octogenarianLord Bath , and the experience of reading them, are the subject of a thought-provoking blog by Jane Magrath .
Magrath, Jane. “Reading for their lives”. Reading for their lives: the bluestockings, their letters, their lives.
Textual Features Elizabeth Carter
As a youngster of twenty-one (in May 1739), EC addressed the eminent businessman Edward Cavebreezily, mingling the domestic and the literary.
Chisholm, Kate. “Bluestocking Feminism”. New Rambler, pp. 60-6.
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In her mature correspondence with Elizabeth Montagu both writers discuss their...

Timeline

23 February 1733: A twenty-two-year-old washerwoman, Sarah...

Building item

23 February 1733

A twenty-two-year-old washerwoman, Sarah Malcolm , standing trial for murder, failed to persuade a jury (all-male, of course) that the blood on her shift was not the victim's but her own menstrual blood.

Texts

Magrath, Jane. “’Rags of Mortality’: Negotiating the Body in the Bluestocking Letters”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 235-56.
Magrath, Jane. “(Mis)Reading the Bloody Body: The Case of Sarah Malcolm”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
11
, No. 2, pp. 223-36.
Magrath, Jane. Corporal Punishment: Women’s Bodies and Their Eighteenth-Century Readers. University of Alberta.
Magrath, Jane. “Mapping the Resistant Body: Health Tourism, Nationalism, and Elizabeth Carter’s Trip to Spa, 1763”. Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS) Conference, St John’s, Newfoundland.
Magrath, Jane. “Reading for their lives”. Reading for their lives: the bluestockings, their letters, their lives.