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Colby Lecture
Winner of the Colby Scholarly Book Award:
Jennie Batchelor, The Lady’s Magazine (1770-1832) and the making of literary history (Edinburgh University Press, 2022)
The committee described Batchelor’s book as ‘compelling’, ‘bold’, ‘exciting’, and highly impactful for the discipline. The study is focused entirely on recovering the historical and literary importance of a major but understudied title.
It displays considerable archival work, is meticulously researched, and offers a sophisticated argument that also manages to be powerfully and entertainingly written.
Batchelor’s The Lady’s Magazine is a model of an extended case study that also makes an intervention in literary studies, with a reach that links communities of writers and readers from the end of the eighteenth century to well into the nineteenth century.
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