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Women and Public Speech in Manuals of Rhetoric, Journalism, Autobiography and Fiction
Herausgeber: Zwierlein, Anne-Julia | Graef, Sebastian | Weig, Heidi
Regensburg Studies in Gender and Culture, Bd. 11
2022
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Abstract
The Victorian rise of mass print media competed against persisting cults of orality: lectures, political speeches, and other oral formats were omnipresent. Still, cultures of lecturing and public speaking have remained surprisingly invisible in Victorian literary and cultural studies. These two anthology volumes explore this important cultural practice, tracing representations and fictionalisations of ephemeral oral performances through print and, sometimes, manuscript. From manuals of rhetoric via journalism and autobiography to fiction, the sources have been selected, introduced and annotated with care; some of them are published here for the first time (and most of them for the first time since the Victorian era). Both volumes combined also show how the vibrant scene of lecturing became increasingly more diversified, popularised, and socially inclusive. Vol. 1 thus addresses the problem of ‘mixed speaking’ (before both men and women), while vol. 2 is concerned centrally with the active participation of women in the cultures of lecturing and public speaking, from the early nineteenth century to the suffragettes. Vol. 1: The Art of Public Speaking – Speaking Techniques and Voice Production – Gesture and Attitude – Relationship with the Audience – Chairmanship – Managing Lectures and Lecture Tours – Public Reading and Reciting – Penny Readings – Humorous and Satirical Approaches. Vol. 2: Women and Elocution: Reading and Reciting – Women’s Debating Clubs – Satirizing Women Speakers – Conversion to Suffragism and ‘First Speech’ – Training and Professionalising Women Lecturers.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
| Zwischenüberschrift | Seite | Aktion | Preis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | Cover | ||
| Titel | III | ||
| Imprint | IV | ||
| Table of Contents | V | ||
| Anne-Julia Zwierlein - Introduction: Cultures of Lecturing in the Long Nineteenth Century | 1 | ||
| Oral Performances: Lecturing, Public Speaking, Reciting | 1 | ||
| Women’s Incursion onto Print and Speech Platforms | 2 | ||
| Anthology Volumes: (1) ‚Practices of Oral Performance;‘ (2) ‚Women and Public Speech‘ | 4 | ||
| Acknowledgements | 8 | ||
| A Note on Annotation | 9 | ||
| List of Works Cited | 9 | ||
| Section 1 - ‚Women and Elocution: Reading and Reciting‘ | 13 | ||
| I. Sarah Stickney Ellis - “The Art of Reading Well, as Connected with Social Improvement” – ‚The Young Ladies’ Reader‘ (1845) | 15 | ||
| II. Jessie Murray-Clark - “Respiration” – ‚How to Excel in Singing and Elocution‘ (1884) | 21 | ||
| III. Miss Glyn (Mrs Dallas) - “Advertisements: Teaching Reading, Elocution, and Speaking in Song” (1868-88) | 23 | ||
| IV. Grace Latham - “Reading as an Art” – ‚The Monthly Packet‘ (1878) | 25 | ||
| V. Anon. (Birkbeck Literary and Scientific Institution) - “Elocutionary Examination” – Minutes; Birkbeck Literary and Scientific Institution (1879; 1891) | 27 | ||
| VI. Alice Cliff Scatcherd & Agnes Sunley - “Penny Readings” – ‚Women’s Penny Paper‘ (1889) | 30 | ||
| VII. George Gissing - “Chapter IX: Pathological” – ‚The Nether World‘ (1889) | 32 | ||
| VIII. Thomas Hardy - “Chapter 1: The Incarnation is Assumed to be a True One” – ‚The Pursuit of the Well-Beloved‘ (1892) | 35 | ||
| Section 2 - ‚Women’s Debating Clubs‘ | 39 | ||
| I. Anon. - “Lecture at the Strong-Minded Women’s Club” – ‚Punch‘ (1852) | 41 | ||
| II. Anon. - “Great Reform Meeting” – ‚Punch‘ (1859) | 44 | ||
| III. Anon. - “The Social Science Association” – ‚The Saturday Review‘ (1862) | 48 | ||
| IV. ’Arry (pseud.) - “’Arry on Woman’s Rights” – ‚Punch‘ (1881) | 52 | ||
| V. Anon. - “Old and New Clubs for Ladies” – ‚Bow Bells‘ (1888) | 54 | ||
| VI. Amy Levy - “Women and Club Life” – ‚The Woman’s World‘ (1888) | 56 | ||
| VII. Anon. - “The Guild of the Unrepresented” – ‚Women’s Penny Paper‘ (1890) | 62 | ||
| VIII. Anon. - “Mr. Valentine [and the Ladies’ Debating Society]” – ‚The Monthly Packet‘ (1890) | 65 | ||
| IX. Anon. - “Silly-Bacy; or, the New Celi-Bête Noire (A Matrimonial Melodrama full of Somer-Villany)” – ‚Judy‘ (1891) | 67 | ||
| X. George Gissing - “Chapter XIII: Discord of Leaders” – ‚The Odd Women‘ (1893) | 70 | ||
| Section 3 - ‚Satirizing Women Speakers‘ | 73 | ||
| I. Anon. - “Miss Lydia Becker and Mrs. Cassidy” – ‚The Sphinx‘ (1869) | 75 | ||
| II. Anon. - “Mrs. Harriet Law” – ‚The Sphinx‘ (1869) | 80 | ||
| III. Anon. - “Lady Lecturers” – ‚Saturday Review‘ (1872) | 85 | ||
| IV. ‘Susan Sideglance’ (pseud.) - “That Dear Old Lady” – ‚Judy‘ (1872) | 89 | ||
| V. Mrs Prosser - ‚Laura Loft: A Tale of Woman’s Rights – The Leisure Hour‘ (1873) | 91 | ||
| VI. L[ouisa] K. Knatchbull-Hugessen - “Aunt Dunk on Woman’s Rights”, ‚Aunt Dunk – Belgravia‘ (1873) | 95 | ||
| VII. Charles Maurice Davies - “A Woman’s Rights Debate” – ‚Mystic London‘ (1875) | 102 | ||
| VIII. Anthony Trollope - “The Disabilities”, ‚Is He Popenjoy? – All the Year Round ‘(1877) | 106 | ||
| IX. Anon. - “A Strong-Minded Woman” – ‚Bow Bells‘ (1879) | 112 | ||
| X. Justin McCarthy - “‘Lady, dost thou not fear to stray?’”, ‚Donna Quixote – The London Reader‘ (1879) | 114 | ||
| XI. Anon. - “People I Don’t Want to Meet: A Gallery of Awful Nuisances. No. 8. – My Wife.” – ‚Judy‘ (1880) | 116 | ||
| XII. Wilkie Collins - “Chapter XXXIX”, ‚Heart and Science: A Story of the Present Time – Belgravia‘ (1882/83) | 121 | ||
| XIII. Henry James - “Chapter 8” – ‚The Bostonians: A Novel‘ (1886) | 123 | ||
| XIV. Anon. - “Pamela and Joshua” – ‚Bow Bells‘ (1889) | 126 | ||
| XV. Anon. - “The Curse of Truecliffe. Chapters VI & XII” – ‚Bow Bells‘ (1890) | 131 | ||
| XVI. U.V.W. - “The New Woman” – ‚The Monthly Packet‘ (1895) | 136 | ||
| XVII. Anon. - “A Lecture for Women Only: By One of Them” – ‚London Journal‘ (1897) | 138 | ||
| XVIII. George Manville Fenn - “A Tyranny Crushed” – ‚The Strand Magazine‘ (1899) | 140 | ||
| XIX. H.G. Wells - “The Two Proposals of Mr Magnet” – ‚Marriage‘ (1912) | 148 | ||
| Section 4 - ‚Conversion to Suffragism and ‘First Speech’‘ | 153 | ||
| I. Mary Fordham - “Her First Speech: A Sketch” – ‚The Woman’s Herald‘ (1893) | 155 | ||
| II. Florence Fenwick Miller - “How I Made My First Speech” – ‚The Woman’s Signal‘ (1894) | 158 | ||
| III. William Pett Ridge - “Chapter III” – ‚A Clever Wife: A Novel‘ (1896) | 163 | ||
| IV. Sarah Grand (pseud.) - “Chapter XLIV” – ‚The Beth Book‘ (1897) | 167 | ||
| V. Elizabeth Robins - “Chapter XVI” – ‚The Convert‘ (1907) | 170 | ||
| VI. Charlotte Despard & Mabel Collins - “Foreword” – ‚Outlawed. A Novel on the Woman Suffrage Question‘ (1908) | 177 | ||
| VII. Adrienne Mollwo - “Woman’s Rights”, “A Lecture on Woman’s Suffrage” – ‚A Fair Suffragette‘ (1909) | 180 | ||
| VIII. Annie S. Swan - “Ch. 1: The Awakening of Margaret Holroyd” – ‚Margaret Holroyd, or The Pioneers‘ (1910) | 186 | ||
| IX. Gertrude Colmore (pseud.) - “Chapter II: A Song of Freedom” – ‚Suffragette Sally‘ (1911) | 189 | ||
| X. Kathleen Roberts - ‚Pages from the Diary of a Militant Suffragette‘ (1909) | 191 | ||
| XI. Emmeline Pankhurst - “Chapter I” – ‚My Own Story‘ (1914) | 195 | ||
| XII. Arnold Bennett - “Chapter XXIII: The Blue City” – ‚The Lion’s Share‘ (1916) | 198 | ||
| XIII. May Sinclair - “Ch. XI” – ‚The Tree of Heaven‘ (1917) | 203 | ||
| XIV. Edith Zangwill - “Chapter Two”; “Chapter Fourteen” – ‚The Call‘ (1924) | 208 | ||
| XV. Annie Kenney - “Chapter IV” – ‚Memories of a Militant‘ (1924) | 213 | ||
| XVI. Ray Strachey - “Ch. VI & XVI” – ‚The Cause: A Short History of the Women’s Movement in Great Britain‘ (1928) | 218 | ||
| XVII. Cicely Hamilton - “Chapter VI: Women on the Warpath” – ‚Life Errant‘ (1935) | 223 | ||
| Section 5 - ‚Training and Professionalising Women Lecturers‘ | 227 | ||
| I. Anon. - “Great Was the Multitude of Women Who Proclaimed the Tidings” – ‚The Englishwoman’s Review‘ (1887) | 229 | ||
| II. Anon. - “A Lady Speaker’s Diary” – ‚Women’s Penny Paper‘ (1888) | 230 | ||
| III. Florence Fenwick Miller - “The Ladies’ Column” – ‚The Illustrated London News‘ (1888 / 1890) | 231 | ||
| IV. Anon. - “Leaderettes” – ‚Women’s Penny Paper‘ (1888) | 235 | ||
| V. Grace Greenwood (pseud.) - “A Woman on the Platform” – ‚Women’s Penny Paper‘ (1889) | 236 | ||
| VI. The Central National Society for Women’s Suffrage - “Directions to Workers”; “Rules for Speakers” – ‚Women’s Penny Paper‘ (1890) | 237 | ||
| VII. M. S. Sibthorp - “Correspondence: Women and Public Speaking” – ‚Woman’s Herald‘ (1891) | 241 | ||
| VIII. Anon. - “Women as Lecturers [Edith Bradley’s Association of Women Pioneer Lecturers]” – ‚The Echo‘ (1893) | 242 | ||
| IX. Anon. - “Association of Women Pioneer Lecturers: What Has Been Accomplished in Seven Months – What Might be Accomplished in Seven Years” – ‚The Woman’s Herald‘ (1893) | 245 | ||
| X. ‘A Practical Woman’ - “A Hint to W.L.A. Secretaries: By a Practical Woman” – ‚The Woman’s Signal‘ (1893) | 247 | ||
| XI. Florence Balgarnie - “The School of Methods” – ‚The Woman’s Signal‘ (1894) | 249 | ||
| XII. E.G.C. - “An Unworked Field for Women” – ‚The Woman’s Signal‘ (1895) | 252 | ||
| XIII. Mary Allan Olney - “A Pioneer Suffragist – Lucy Stone” – ‚The Woman’s Signal‘ (1898) | 256 | ||
| XIV. Caroline M. Severance - “Early Opposition to ‘Platform Women’” – ‚The Woman’s Signal‘ (1899) | 263 | ||
| XV. G. E. O’Dell - “On Training for Women” – ‚Public Speaking and Chairmanship‘ (1911) | 266 | ||
| XVI. Lucy D. Bell - “Introductory: Men, Women and Words”; “Chairmanship: The Woman Chairman;” “A Note on Personality” – ‚The Art of Public Speaking‘ (1923) | 269 | ||
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