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Vita Sackville-West is now best known as Virginia Woolf's muse, as a horticultural journalist, and as the creator of Sissinghurst's gardens. Yet during her lifetime, her works were translated energetically into German and she was cast in some German literary journals as a leading figure on the European interwar and post-war literary scene. This essay analyses how Sackville-West's short story, Seducers in Ecuador (Hogarth Press, 1924), made its 1929 debut in Germany as 'Verführer in Ecuador' in the journal Die neue Rundschau [The New Review]. This offers an interesting case study not only of how a work could change its medium through translation – from a free-standing novella to a short story in a literary journal – but also its context through the new set of juxtapositions and cultural associations it acquired by being absorbed into German periodical culture. The function of small magazines in promoting new ideas or forms of art has been well researched in the context of British modernist writing, but little attention has been paid to the reception of translations of such work in European journals. Yet they often functioned as important promotional conduits and were influential in shaping how authors gained footholds in foreign markets.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Part I Introduction -- 1 Women in the History of Science: Frameworks, Themes and Contested Perspectives -- From Great Women to a More Nuanced View: Scholarship on Women in Science -- References -- Part II Strategies and Networks -- 2 The Natural Philosophy of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle: Nature, Self-Knowing Matter, and the Dialogic Universe -- The Scientific Revolution -- Cavendish's Early Particle Theory: 'Poems and Fancies' and 'Philosophical Fancies' (1653) -- Literary Forms and Cavendish's Later Science -- Observations upon Experimental Philosophy (1666) -- The Blazing World -- Conclusion: Cavendish on Education for Women -- References -- 3 Navigating Enlightenment Science: The Case of Marie Geneviève-Charlotte Darlus Thiroux D'Arconville and Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier De Breteuil and the Republic of Letters -- Enlightenment Cultural Norms: The Nature of Woman -- Scientific Education for a Woman -- Personal Networks of Correspondents and Researchers -- Translations, Commentaries, and Anonymity -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 'A Valuable Gift': The Medical Life of Margaret Mason, Lady Mount Cashell -- A Physician's Life -- 'It Is a Mistake to Suppose the Aid of Men Necessary' -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 Janet Taylor (1804-1870): Mathematical Instrument Maker and Teacher of Navigation -- Learning About Mrs. Taylor -- Mrs. Taylor's Early Life -- Janet Taylor-Author -- Mathematical Instrument Manufacturer-And Inventor -- Janet Taylor-Compass Adjuster -- Janet Taylor-A Civil List Pension -- Remembering Mrs. Taylor -- References -- 6 Early Female Geologists: The Importance of Professional and Educational Societies During the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- Social Context and Attitudes to Scientific Women.