User:Scribblingwoman

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"Lexicographer: A writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words."

- Samuel Johnson

C18

This user is interested in the eighteenth century.

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Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which this user will not put.

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This user supports the use of gender-neutral language.

(s)he

This user supports parallel usage.

they

This user considers singular they standard English usage.

A, B, and C

This user prefers the serial comma.

CA	This user uses Canadian English spelling.

This user has a Doctor of Philosophy degree in English.

This user reads Science Fiction

This user is crunching numbers using BOINC.

This user runs Mac OS X.

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This user remembers how to use a typewriter, and that's all you need to know.

1 What's up?
2 Interests
3 Editing
4 Subpages
5 Wiki links
- 5.1 Resources
- 5.2 Projects and portals
6 Elsewhere

What's up?

Editing is taking a back seat until a most interesting discussion on the category of women writers winds up.

Interests

British literature of the Restoration and 18thc; women's writing; print culture; street literature; speculative fiction

Editing

I am on a roll with women writers, particularly dramatists, of the Long 18thc. I have begun lists of early-modern women playwrights and early-modern women poets, initiated articles on

Mary Alcock; Elizabeth Amherst; Katherine Austen; Anne Bannerman; Frances Boothby; Barbarina Brand; Hannah Brand; Frances Burney; Elizabeth Cary; Dorothea Celesia; An Collins; Elizabeth Craven; Alicia D'Anvers; Mary Davys; Elizabeth Egerton; Sarah Fyge Egerton; Jane Lumley; Mary Oxlie; Sarah Piers; Anne Plumptre; Elizabeth Polack; Elizabeth Polwheele; Diana Primrose; Jane Scott; Jane Wiseman;

as well as on

Lovers' Vows and

Women's writing in English;

and done moderate to substantial edits on

The Nine Muses; Elizabeth Inchbald; Mariana Starke

Subpages

[Please note: unless invited, if you would like to edit any of these drafts, please do so in the form of suggestions posted on the appropriate talk page. Thanks!]