Mary Anne Rawson's The Bow in the Cloud (1834): A Scholarly Edition

Further Readings

Further Reading

Aird, F. S. ‘Workers, Wives and Radicals: Women and Abolitionism in the North-East of England, 1792–1865’. Slavery & Abolition (January 2024): 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/0144039X.2024.2303061.

Bird, Eleanor. "A Woman of Letters: Mary Anne Rawson’s Letter Collection and her Compilation of the Anti-Slavery Gift Book The Bow in the Cloud, 1826-1834." Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies 17.2 (Summer 2021). https://www.ncgsjournal.com/issue172/bird.html.

Clapp, Elizabeth J. and Julie Roy Jeffrey, editors. Women, Dissent & Anti-Slavery: in Britain and America, 1790-1865. Oxford University Press, 2011.

Faxon, Frederick Winthrop. Literary Annuals and Gift Books: A Bibliography with a Descriptive Introduction. Boston Book Company, 1912.

Ferguson, Moira. Subject to Others: British Women Writers and Colonial Slavery, 1670-1834. Routledge, 1992.

Fritz, Meaghan M. and Frank E. Fee Jr. “To Give the Gift of Freedom: Gift Books and the War on Slavery.” American Periodicals, 23.1 (2013), pp. 60–82, doi: 10.1353/amp.2013.0000.

Halbersleben, Karen. Women’s Participation in the British Antislavery Movement 1824-1865. E. Mellen Press, 1993.

Harris, Katherine D. Forget Me Not: The Rise of the British Annual, 1823-1835. Ohio University Press, 2015.

Huzzey, Richard. Freedom Burning: Anti-Slavery and Empire in Victorian Britain. Cornell University Press, 2012.

Levy, Michelle. Literary Manuscript Culture in Romantic Britain. Edinburgh University Press, 2020.

---. Family Authorship and Romantic Print Culture. Palgrave, 2008.

Midgley, Clare. Women Against Slavery: The British Campaigns 1780-1870. Routledge, 1992.

Mole, Tom. What the Victorians Made of Romanticism. Princeton University Press, 2017.

Ohge, Christopher. 'The Making of an Anti-Slavery Anthology: Mary-Anne Rawson and "The Bow in the Cloud"’, John Rylands Research Institute Blog, 24 April 2019. 

---. Publishing Scholarly Editions: Archives, Computing, and Experience. Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Onslow, Barbara. “Gendered Productions: Annuals and Gift Books.” Journalism and the Periodical Press in Britain, edited by Joanne Shattock, Cambridge University Press, 2017, pp. 66 – 83. Cambridge University Press, doi: 10.1017/9781316084403.006.

Thompson, Ralph. “The Liberty Bell and Other Anti-Slavery Gift Books.” New England Quarterly 7.1 (1934), pp. 154–68. doi: 10.2307/359273.

Turley, David. The Culture of English Antislavery, 1780-1860. Routledge, 2004.

Twells, Alison. The Civilising Mission and the English Middle Class: the ‘Heathen’ at Home and Overseas 1792-1850 . Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Whyte, Iain. Scotland and the Abolition of Black Slavery, 1756-1838. Edinburgh University Press, 2006.