Barbara Bodichon's Epistolary Education: Unfolding Feminism
Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Unfolding Feminism: Letters, Networks and Friendships -- 1.1 An Epistolary Portrait -- 1.2 Epistolary Education -- 1.3 Book Structure -- Chapter 2: Bodichon's Epistolary Bildung: Learning, Narratives and Agency -- 2.1 Epistolary Bildung -- 2.2 Wilhelm von Humboldt and Bildung -- 2.3 Narrative Bildung: The Gebildet Epistolary Self -- 2.4 Fragmented Narrative Agency -- 2.5 Bodichon's Epistolary 'I,' 'You' and 'She' -- 2.6 Intersubjective Epistolary 'Truth' -- 2.7 Editorial Rationale -- Chapter 3: 'A Peculiar Education': Epistolary Networks, Knowledge and Critical Thinking -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 '[B]etter Education Both of Teachers and Pupils' -- 3.3 'Bible, Testament, Testament, Bible' -- 3.4 Better Education for Women -- 3.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 4: 'To Be Happy Is to Work, Work - Work - Work': Affection, Creativity and Self-Fulfilment -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 'Every Human Being Should Work' -- 4.3 Bourgeois Female Domesticity -- 4.4 Paid Work -- 4.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 5: 'Improbable That We Should Agree in the Choice of Husbands': Love, Marriage and Silences -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 'Women Should Not Make Love Their Profession' -- 5.3 Married Life and Personal Space -- 5.4 Telling Silences -- 5.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 6: 'Slavery is … Allied to the Injustice to Women': Morality, Equality and Citizenship -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 'Citizenship is an honour' -- 6.3 Bodichon's Travelling Self -- 6.4 Travelling Letters -- 6.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 7: 'Bringing Home Bamboos to Paint': Artistry, Aesthetics and Power -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 'It is Really Pitiful to See So Much Pure Beauty Unappreciated Everywhere in Spain' -- 7.3 Artistic Self-Belief -- 7.4 A Hybrid Cultural Mediation -- 7.5 Conclusion.