- Curated and abridged by Susan Carlile and Karenza Sutton-Bennett
- Annotated by undergraduate students, Kelly Plante, and Karenza Sutton-Bennett as noted
The below documents are excerpted from the main Lady’s Museum content for assignment with our suggested curriculum. They include modernized British spellings and footnotes to explain eighteenth-century words, people and places. They contain the original page numbers from the first edition of The Lady’s Museum in square brackets for easy comparison to the original magazine [as seen on Eighteenth-Century Collections Online (ECCO) or in libraries].
For further historical and scholarly context into the Lady’s Museum—and insight on the value of teaching it—see Susan Carlile and Karenza Sutton-Bennett’s 2022 Aphra Behn Online (ABO) article: “Teaching the Lady’s Museum and Sophia: Imperialism, Early Feminism, and Beyond.” The article will provide you the necessary background information to prepare for teaching these sections.
Annotated
- Preface
- The Trifler – Abridged. Annotated by Victoria Burke’s Winter 2022 Book History class at uOttawa and Kelly Plante
- Sophia (Broadview Press) OR the History of Harriot and Sophia – Unabridged (assign in lieu of the Broadview Press edition of Sophia to give students a free option). Annotated by students of Karenza’s winter 2022 introductory literature course at uOttawa, and Karenza Sutton-Bennett
- Philosophy for the Ladies – Abridged. Annotated by students of Karenza’s Winter 2022 introductory literature course at uOttawa and Karenza Sutton-Bennett
- The Lady’s Geography – Abridged. Annotated by Jason Rodriguez Taveras (University of Massachusetts) and Alix Iovieno (Texas Woman’s University)
- Essay on the Original Inhabitants of Great Britain – Abridged. Annotated by Jason Rodriguez Taveras (University of Massachusetts)
- Treatise on the Education of Daughters – Abridged Annotated by Karenza Sutton-Bennett
- Of the Studies Proper for Women – Abridged. Annotated by Karenza Sutton-Bennett
- History of the Princess Padmani. Annotated by students of Karen Griscom‘s Spring 2023 British Literature I course at Community College of Rhode Island and Kelly Plante
- Lady’s Philosophy/Museum conclusion
The above links go to our web version of the text, where you may download a PDF of that reading.