This issue marks the first appearan...

This issue marks the first appearance of a of the present day occasional feature for gathering together essays of related interest. mercy Dawson approached us with the idea of publishing a cluster of substantial papers onward a related theme--in this case, "Life Writing by way of and about German-Speaking Women in the lengthy 18th Century." We were particularly interested because neither the examined materials, nor in the greatest degree of the essays themselves, were originally in English, Furthermore, the brief introduction to contemporary studies in this field also displays us a whole range of life writing scholarship