1st Edition
Lecturing Women in British Fiction, Periodicals and Public Orality, 1870–1910 The First Speech
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Women in Cultures of Public Speech and Mass Print
Lecturing Women: Seriality, Sensation and Social Change
Metropolitan Mediascapes: Lectures and Speeches
Reinventing the Lecture Circuit: Women Speaking
Metropolitan Mediascapes: Mass Print
My Chapters and Sources
1 Archaeology of Voices:
Women Audiences and Speakers at London Lecture Venues
Access for Women to Lecturing Institutions: Members, Subscribers, ‘Friends’
Women Audience Members at London Lecturing Institutions
Women Speakers at London Lecturing Institutions
Women’s Voices at Lecturing Institutions: Singing and Reciting
Public Speaking and Debating at Lecturing Institutions: Men Only?
2 Periodical Education:
Lecture-Going and Social Causeries in London Penny Weeklies
Lecture-Going and Metropolitan Rhythms in Penny Weeklies
Women’s Education and Science Lecture Reporting in Penny Weeklies
Experiential Lecture Advertising in Bow Bells’ ‘A Lady’s Letter’
Interactive Advice on Elocution in Penny Weeklies
Visiting Lecture Halls with Judy’s ‘Mrs. Parr-Venue’ and ‘Judy’
3 Romance and Sensation:
Spicing up the Lecture Circuit in Penny Weekly Fiction
Fictionalising Lectures in Penny Fiction Weeklies
Lecture-Going and Courtship Plots in Penny Fiction
Sensational Encounters: Revenant Lecturers in Penny Fiction
Neglected Wives: Marriage Counselling and the Lecture Circuit
Working-Class Audiences: Improving and Incendiary Lectures
4 Serial Spectacle:
Getting Used to Women Lecturers in Penny Weekly Fiction
Women Lecturers as Failed Homemakers in Penny Weekly Fiction
Dying Rather than Speaking: Rejecting Rhetorical Education
Normalising Women Lecturers in Penny Weekly Fiction
Self-Habituation: Romance and Re-education in Penny Weekly Fiction
Professionalisation: Women Lecturers and Democracy
5 Collective Vocality:
Mass Print and Speech in Anti-Feminist, New Woman and Suffrage Writing
Mass Culture and Women Speaking Automata: Gissing, James, Du Maurier
Women Speakers and Failed Resonance in Anti-Feminist Novels
Conflicted Vocality on New Woman Print Platforms
Mass Print Tactics: Romance and Reencounter in Suffrage Novels
Seriality and Contagious Conversion in Suffrage Autobiography
6 First Speech:
Training Women Speakers in Suffrage Writing, Rhetorical Manuals and
Feminist Weeklies
The ‘First Speech’ in Suffrage Novels: Between Genius and Training
Women on the Platform and Rhetorical Manuals
Speaking Out Together: Rhetorical Workshops in Feminist Weeklies
Case Study: The Association of Women Pioneer Lecturers
Professional Women Speakers: Routine and Seriality
Coda: Transmediation – ‘Speech or Silence’
Appendix
Index
Biography
Anne-Julia Zwierlein is Professor of English Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Regensburg, Germany, specialising in Early Modern and Victorian Studies. She has published work on Milton, early modern city comedy, literature and science, literature and imperialism, the novel of formation and Victorian oral cultures.
