Women in Russian Culture and Society, 1700-1825

Introduction–A. Tosi * PART I: WOMEN AND THE ARTS * Signs from Empresses and Actresses: Women and Theatre in the Eighteenth Century–L. Donnels O’Malley * Female Serfs in the Performing World–R. Stites * Women and Literature, Women in Literature: Female Authors of Fiction in the Early Nineteenth Century–A. Tosi * Women’s Travel and Travel Writing in Russia, 1700-1825–S. Dickinson * The First Russian Women’s Journals and the Construction of the Reader–G. Hammarberg * PART II: WOMEN AND SOCIETY * “Without Going to a Regular Court…”: the Phenomenon of the “Divorce Letter” in Petrine Russia–O. Kosheleva * Appendix * The Function of Fashion: Women and Clothing at the Russian Court (1700-62)–P. Keenan * Merchant Women in Business in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries–G. Ul’ianova * PART III: FEMININITY AND THE CHURCH * Sacralising Female Rule, 1725-61–G. Marker * Female Orthodox Monasticism in Eighteenth-Century Imperial Russia: the Experience of Nizhnii Novgorod–W. G. Wagner * Women with a Mission: British Female Evangelicals in the Russian Empire in the Early Nineteenth Century–W. Rosslyn *