The Matrimonial Trap
Subtitle: Eighteenth-Century Women Writers Redefine Marriage
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Lewisburg, PA
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9781611485264
Table of contents: title: Contents; title: Acknowledgements vii; title: Introduction: Eighteenth-Century Marriage in Crisis?; title: Chapter 1: Intimacy, Identity, and Marital Choice: The Osborne-Temple Correspondence; title: Chapter 2: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: The Power of Self-Fashioning; title: Chapter 3: Hester Chapone as a Living Clarissa in Letters on Filial Obedience and A Matrimonial Creed; title: Chapter 4: “Perfect Friendship”: Mary Delany, Companionacy, and Control; title: Chapter 5: Duty and Sentiment in Sarah Scott’s The Test of Filial Duty; title: Chapter 6: Eliza Haywood: The Limits of Feminine Agency; title: Afterword: From Clarissa Harlowe to Elizabeth Bennet; title: Bibliography; title: About the Author