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Women from the Parsonage:Pastors’ Daughters as Writers, Translators, Salonnières, and Educators

Women from the Parsonage:Pastors’ Daughters as Writers, Translators, Salonnières, and Educators by Susanne Bach, Cindy K. Renker Women from the Parsonage

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Introduction
A Maiden’s Pastime: Susanna Elisabeth Zeidler (1657–1693)
Elizabeth Singer Rowe (1674–1737): From Parsonage to Bestselling Author
Public Ambition as Moral Obligation: The Intellectual Career of Elizabeth Carter (1717–1806)
Madame Necker (1737–1794): Educator, Salonnière, Mother, Writer, Charity Patron
Dorothea Friderika Baldinger, née Gutbier (1743–1786): A “Woman Intellectual” in the Age of Enlightenment?
Sophie Schwarz (1754–1789): “Wonderful Antagonism in My Own Soul” – Annotations to Sophie Schwarz’s Travel Journal
Poetics, Politics, Gender and Pedagogics in Friederike Brun’s (1765–1835) Autobiography Wahrheit aus Morgenträumen (1824)
Jane Austen (1775–1817): A Novelist from the Parsonage
Louise Aston (1814–1871): A Liberal Author and Feminist
“I will never have another man in this house”. The Perpetual Curate Patrick Brontë and His Perpetual Daughter Charlotte (1816–1855)
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Women from the Parsonage:Pastors’ Daughters as Writers, Translators, Salonnières, and Educators

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For further information on Nicholls, see Cochrane/Cochrane 2011.

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In other respects, their story is similar, too – Jane asks the Rivers’ servant: “Their father is dead?” “Dead three weeks sin' of a stroke.” “They have no mother?” “The mistress has been dead this many a year.” “Have you lived with the family long?” “I've lived here thirty year. I nursed them all three” (368).

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Cf. Baym: “Who, after all, might Bertha Mason be – she to whom Rochester is already married? Jane Eyre is replete with images of ferocious female power and Jane turns to Rochester, at first, as to a refuge. That refuge is sullied by the presence in the nest of another woman, who is made repulsive and ridiculous so that the reader must reject her; and is killed before the narrative is out, so that the daughter can replace her” (1993: 165, author’s emphasis). See also (Wyatt 1985: 200) and (Sadoff 1982: 130).

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For Boumelha, this is a case of Jane having her cake and eating it too: Jane pursues a course “which leads her quite flagrantly into the best of two worlds, into material wealth and spiritual capital, into the satisfaction of appetite and the self-satisfaction of sacrifice” (1997: 130).

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On the topic of Jane Eyre’s intertextuality, see Williams 1997.

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She excluded him from her will; cf. Barker 1994: 770.

307

Haworth News. “Charlotte Brontë – Wedding Re-enactment.”

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