All Outputs (19)

“[H]is Castle was her Proper Habitation”: Homes and Dwelling Places in Sarah Fielding’s The History of the Countess of Dellwyn (1759) (2023)
Journal Article
Skinner, G. M. (2023). “[H]is Castle was her Proper Habitation”: Homes and Dwelling Places in Sarah Fielding’s The History of the Countess of Dellwyn (1759). European Romantic Review, 34(2), 151-164. https://doi.org/10.1080/10509585.2023.2181455

Sarah Fielding’s The Countess of Dellwyn tells Charlotte Lucum’s story. Seventeen, beautiful, raised in rural seclusion, her father manipulates her into marrying sixty-five year old Lord Dellwyn, a decrepit, gout-ridden and wealthy peer whose politic... Read More about “[H]is Castle was her Proper Habitation”: Homes and Dwelling Places in Sarah Fielding’s The History of the Countess of Dellwyn (1759).

The History of the Countess of Dellwyn (2022)
Book
Skinner, G. (Ed.). (2022). The History of the Countess of Dellwyn. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351003421

Centlivre, Censorship, and the Politics of the Early Eighteenth-Century Stage (2020)
Book Chapter
Skinner, G. (in press). Centlivre, Censorship, and the Politics of the Early Eighteenth-Century Stage. In The Routledge Anthology of Women's Theatre Theory and Dramatic Criticism. Routledge

Spoken from the impulse of the moment: Epistolarity, Sensibility and Breath in Frances Burney's Evelina (2020)
Book Chapter
Skinner, G. (2020). Spoken from the impulse of the moment: Epistolarity, Sensibility and Breath in Frances Burney's Evelina. In C. Saunders, D. Fuller, & J. Macnaughton (Eds.), The life of breath in literature, culture, and medicine: classical to contemporary (241-259). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74443-4_12

Skinner explores the neglected role of breath in the mapping and understanding of eighteenth-century sensibility. Thematically rich in their associations with body and spirit, life and death, breath and breathlessness are also woven into the stylisti... Read More about Spoken from the impulse of the moment: Epistolarity, Sensibility and Breath in Frances Burney's Evelina.

Anon., The Strolling Player; or, Life and Adventures of William Templeton (2018)
Book Chapter
Skinner, G. (in press). Anon., The Strolling Player; or, Life and Adventures of William Templeton. In A. London (Ed.), The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel. Cambridge University Press

Charles Jenner, Letters from Altamont (2018)
Book Chapter
Skinner, G. (in press). Charles Jenner, Letters from Altamont. In The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel. Cambridge University Press

Charles Jenner, The Placid Man (2018)
Book Chapter
Skinner, G. (in press). Charles Jenner, The Placid Man. In A. London (Ed.), The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel. Cambridge University Press

"Stage-plays [...] and a thousand other amusements now in use": Garrick's response to anti-theatrical discourse in the mid-eighteenth century (2014)
Journal Article
Skinner, G. (2014). "Stage-plays [...] and a thousand other amusements now in use": Garrick's response to anti-theatrical discourse in the mid-eighteenth century. Restoration and 18th century theatre research, 29(2), 63-82

"A Tattling Town like Windsor" : negotiating proper relations in Frances Burney's early Court Journals and Letters (1786-87) (2013)
Journal Article
Skinner, G. (2014). "A Tattling Town like Windsor" : negotiating proper relations in Frances Burney's early Court Journals and Letters (1786-87). Eighteenth-Century Life, 38(1), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-2380007

The idea that Burney features in her own journals and letters as a novelistic heroine is something that readers over the years have noted and attributed variously to straightforward egotism or to a need for compensation. In this article, I read narra... Read More about "A Tattling Town like Windsor" : negotiating proper relations in Frances Burney's early Court Journals and Letters (1786-87).

Professionalism, Performance and Private Theatricals in Frances Burney's "The Wanderer" (2012)
Journal Article
Skinner, G. (2012). Professionalism, Performance and Private Theatricals in Frances Burney's "The Wanderer". Romanticism, 18(3), 294-305. https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2012.0100

"An Unsullied Reputation in the Midst of Danger": Barsanti, Propriety and Performance in Burney's Early journals and Letters (2012)
Journal Article
Skinner, G. (2012). "An Unsullied Reputation in the Midst of Danger": Barsanti, Propriety and Performance in Burney's Early journals and Letters. Women's Writing, 19(4), 525-543. https://doi.org/10.1080/09699082.2012.712312

Although it has been recognized for some time that drama and the theatre were of key importance in Frances Burney's life and writing, the regular presence of Jane Barsanti's name in her journals and letters from 1769 to the late 1770s has remained al... Read More about "An Unsullied Reputation in the Midst of Danger": Barsanti, Propriety and Performance in Burney's Early journals and Letters.

"My Muse loves a little Variety": Writing Drama and the Creative Life of Frances Burney (2011)
Journal Article
Skinner, G. (2011). "My Muse loves a little Variety": Writing Drama and the Creative Life of Frances Burney. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 34(2), 197-208. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1754-0208.2011.00376.x

This article focuses on Frances Burney's abortive career as a playwright and uses her journals and letters to examine three key points: the suppression of her first comedy, The Witlings; the sole performance of her tragedy Edwy and Elgiva; and the wi... Read More about "My Muse loves a little Variety": Writing Drama and the Creative Life of Frances Burney.

Class, Gender, and Inheritance in Burney's A Busy Day and The Woman-Hater (2010)
Book Chapter
Skinner, G. (2010). Class, Gender, and Inheritance in Burney's A Busy Day and The Woman-Hater. In B. Nelson, & C. Burroughs (Eds.), Approaches to Teaching British Women Playwrights of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century (237-246). Modern Language Association of America

Lady Dorothea Du Bois' and 'Charles Jenner (2004)
Book Chapter
Skinner, G. (2004). Lady Dorothea Du Bois' and 'Charles Jenner. In H. Matthew, B. Harrison, & L. Goldman (Eds.), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press

'"A worse Condition than Slavery itself"? Women's Status as Legal and Civic Subjects in the Eighteenth Century'. (2000)
Book Chapter
Skinner, G. (2000). '"A worse Condition than Slavery itself"? Women's Status as Legal and Civic Subjects in the Eighteenth Century'. In V. Jones (Ed.), Women and Literature in Britain 1700-1800. Cambridge University Press

Sensibility and Economics in the Novel, 1740-1800: The Price of a Tear (1999)
Book
Skinner, G. (1999). Sensibility and Economics in the Novel, 1740-1800: The Price of a Tear. Macmillan

The History of Lady Julia Mandeville' and 'Self-Control (1999)
Book Chapter
Skinner, G. (1999). The History of Lady Julia Mandeville' and 'Self-Control. In L. Sage (Ed.), The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English. Cambridge University Press

'"Above Oeconomy": Elizabeth Griffith's The History of Lady Barton and Henry Mackenzie's The Man of Feeling'. (1995)
Journal Article
Skinner, G. (1995). '"Above Oeconomy": Elizabeth Griffith's The History of Lady Barton and Henry Mackenzie's The Man of Feeling'. Eighteenth-Century Life, 19(1),

'"The Price of a Tear": Economic Sense and Sensibility in Sarah Fielding's David Simple'. (1992)
Journal Article
Skinner, G. (1992). '"The Price of a Tear": Economic Sense and Sensibility in Sarah Fielding's David Simple'. Literature and History, 1 (3rd Series)(1),