Part I Artificialia and Naturalia

Science, Gender and Collecting:The Dutch 18th century Ladies’ Society for Physical Sciences of Middelburg

Anne Harbers and Andrea Gáldy

Between Art and Science: Portraits of Citrus Fruit for Anna Maria Luisa de’ Medici

Irina Schmiedel

Anne Vallayer-Coster’s Still Life with Sea Shells and Coral

Kelsey Brosnan

Part II Travel, Borders, and Networks

Maria Sibylla Merian: A Woman’s Pioneering Work in Entomology

Katharina Schmidt-Loske

Sarah Sophia Banks’s Coin Collection: Female Networks of Exchange

Erica Hayes and Kacie L. Wills

Conversing with Collecting the World: Elite Female Sociability and Learning through Objects in the Age of Enlightenment

Lizzie Rogers

Portrait of Charlotte de France: from Naples to Sicily, a Collection in Transit

Maria Antonietta Spadero

8. The Collecting Activity of Catherine II in 18th Century Russia: Pioneering Action or Sheer Demonstration of Power?

Charis Ch. Avlonitou

Part III Displaying, Recording, and Cataloguing

‘I made memorandums’: Mary Hamilton, Sociability, and Antiquarianism in the Eighteenth-Century Collection

Madeleine Pelling

Eleanor Coade, John Soane, and the Coade Caryatid

Nicole Cochrane

Anne Wagner’s Album (1795-1805): Collecting Feminine Friendship

Ryna Ordynat

An Art Cabinet in Miniature: The Dollhouse of Petronella Oortman

Hanneke Grootenboer

Part IV Beyond the Eighteenth Century

Collection, Display, and Conservation: The Print Room at Castletown House

Anna Frances O’Regan

Olivia Lanza di Mazzarino (1893-1970): A Lady’s collection of Eighteenth-Century Folding Fans

Arlene Leis

About the Author

Arlene Leis is an independent art historian who received her PhD from University of York.

Kacie L. Wills received her PhD in English from the University of California, Riverside, and is Assistant Professor of English at Illinois College.

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"The frameworks and methodologies set forth by the authors gathered here will provide models for future feminist scholarship in archival research and in the effective deployment of endeavours in the digital humanities that make use of social network analysis." - Tori Champion, sehepunkte"This is a valuable, well composed, and beautifully produced book. The fourteen chapters, divided among four parts, are all thoroughly researched and exhaustively documented. Each chapter has both clear, useful notes and a substantial bibliography."
-Larry W. Riggs, New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century

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