Isabelle Baudino - The Invisible Woman: Aspects of Womens Work in Eighteenth-Century Britain

ISABELLE BAUDINO is lecturer in British cultural history at the Ecole Normale Suprieure in Lyon. She works on Georgian art and aesthetics. She has published Peinture et historicit: les mutations de la peinture d'histoire en Grande-Bretagne, 1707-1768 (Lille, 1997).

JACQUES CARR is professor of British cultural history at the Sorbonne (Universit Paris IV). He currently works on poverty and charity in the Georgian and Victorian ages. He has edited crire la pauvret: les enqutes sociales britanniques aux XIXe el XXe sicles (Paris, 1995) and Les Visiteurs du pauvre: anthologie d'enqutes britanniques sur la pauvret urbaine, XIXe-XXe sicles (Paris, 2000).

PIERRE DUBOIS is lecturer in British cultural history at the Sorbonne (Universit Paris IV). He works on music and aesthetics in the Georgian age. He has published L'Orgue dans la socit anglaise: thique et esthtique de la modration (Lille, 1997) and is currently editing Charles Avison's Essay on Musical Expression (to be published by Ashgate).

CHRISTINE HIVET is a lecturer in the English department at the University of Caen. She works on eighteenth-century literature and the condition of women. She has published Voix de femmes: roman fminin et condition fminine de Mary Wollstonecraft Mary Shelley (Paris, 1997).

SVERINE LANCIA is completing a doctoral thesis on the social status of late Georgian actresses.

GUYONNE LEDUC is professor of English literature at the Universit Charles de Gaulle in Lille. She has published L'Education des Anglaises au XVIIIe sicle: la conception de Henry Fielding (Paris, 1999) and edited L'Education des femmes en Europe et en Amrique du nord de la Renaissance 1848 (Paris, 1997).

GILLY LEHMANN is a professor in the English department at the University of Franche-Comt in Besanon. She is the author of several articles, in English and in French, on seventeenth and eighteenth-century cookbooks and cookery. She is a contributor to the New DNB and to the Oxford Companion to Food. Her most recent publication is The British Housewife: Cookery Books, Cooking and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Prospect Books, 2003).

SOPHIE LOUSSOUARN is a lecturer in the English department at the Universit de Picardie in Amiens. She works on the education of women and on manners in the Georgian age.

MARION MARCEAU is a lecturer in the English department at the Universit of Paris IX-Dauphine. She has written a thesis on the life and work of the late eighteenth-century novelists Sophia and Harriet Lee.

CCILE RVAUGER is professor of British cultural history at the Universit Michel de Montaigne in Bordeaux. She works on the history of freemasonry and the history of ideas. She has published Le Fait Maonnique au XVIIIe sicle en Grande-Bretagne et aux Etats-Unis (Paris, 1990) and edited Pauvret et assistance en Grande-Bretagne, 1688-1834 (Aix-en-Provence, 1999).

MARIE-CLAIRE ROUYER-DANEY is professor of English at the Universit Michel de Montaigne in Bordeaux. She is a specialist of the Georgian stage and also works in women's studies.

DEBORAH SIMONTON teaches at the University of Aberdeen. Her recent publications include Gendering Scottish History (Glasgow, 1999) and A History of Women's Work, 1700 to the Present (London, 1998).

ANGELA J. SMALLWOOD is a senior lecturer in English literature at the University of Nottingham and was awarded a British Academy Readership to launch her research into eighteenth-century women playwrights. Her recent publications include: 'Women and Theatre' in V. Jones (ed.), Women and Literature in Britain 1700-1800 (Cambridge, 2000) and Plays of Elizabeth Inchbald, Vol. 6 of D. Hughes (gen. ed.), Eighteenth-Century Women Playwrights, (London, 2001).

MARIE-HLNE THVENOT-TOTEMS is professor of Scottish Studies at the Sorbonne (Universit Paris IV). She has collaborated in creating the CD-ROM 'Georgian Cities' (Paris, 2000) with a research team from the Sorbonne. She is the author of La dcouverte de l'Ecosse du XVIIIe sicle travers les rcits des voyageurs britanniques (Paris, 1990, 2 vols) and she has published many articles on eighteenth century Scotalnd.