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Doth religion reside in a woman's bonnet. Is her silence fixed by decree locating the early work of Anne Vaughan Locke / June Waudby -- Food and patriotism: the battle of words between Hannah Glasse and Ann Cook / Andrew Monnickendam -- Mapping women's national identity in George Eliot's The Spanish gypsy / Kim Hyowon -- Jessie White Mario, Louise Colet and the Italian risorgimento / Annamaria Lamarra -- Nancy Cunard: an extraordinary woman / Anna Maria Palombi Cataldi -- History written in flesh and blood: Rebecca West, Martha Gellhorn and Maria Martinez Sierra / Maureen Mulligan -- Artemisia's Arte and the art of the historical novel: Anna Banti, Alexandra Lapierre and Susan Vreeland / Patty Zupan -- Translating identity through women's voices: Michèle Roberts's fair exchange and the looking glass / Eleonora Federici -- Contrasting gardens and worlds: America and Europe in the long journey of indigo, a young native American girl / Gabriella Morisco -- You can do it: bending and blending in Gurinder Chadha's Bend it like Beckham -- Oriana Palusci