Publications and Research
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2015
Abstract
Biographers of Catharine Macaulay (1731–91), much like her contemporaries, often agreed that the woman’s reputation was shaped by the peculiar company she kept: prominent, intellectual, political, radical, revolutionary, and occasion- ally “foolish.”3 This essay examines why it matters what company a writer keeps, especially when that writer is a woman and her reputation is tied to the status of her letters and her correspondents.
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This article was originally published in The Eighteenth Century, available at DOI 10.1353/ecy.2015.0016