Portraying Female Intellectual AuthorityAn IntroductionBeatrijs Vanacker and Lieke van DeinsenPart I: Individual and Collective Portraits of Female Intellectual AuthorityChapter 1‘A woman of supreme goodness, and a singular talent’: Anna Morandi Manzolini, Artist and Anatomist of Enlightenment BolognaCaroline PaganussiChapter 2Epistolary Relationship and Intellectual Identity in Maria Antoniaof Saxony’s Correspondence with Frederick the Great, 1763–1779Kelsey Rubin-DetlevChapter 3Between Defence and Affirmation: The Discursive Self-Representation of Eighteenth-Century Women Authors inFrance and ItalyRotraud von Kulessa (translated by Kristen Gehrman)Chapter 4The Visual and Textual Portraits of Mme de Genlis: The Gouverneur, Educator, and Author of the MémoiresMarie-Emmanuelle Plagnol-Diéval (translated by Kristen Gehrman)Chapter 5(Self-)Portrait of the Woman as (a Reluctant?) AuthorityCatriona SethPart II: Types and Models of Female Intellectual AuthorityChapter 6Penning the Midwife’s Experience: Professional Skills, Publication, and Female Agency in Early Modern EuropeValerie Worth-StylianouChapter 7Women’s Strength Made Perfect in Weakness: Paratextual Authority Constructions in Printed Vernacular Religious Literature by Early Modern Dutch Women WritersNina Geerdink and Feike DietzChapter 8‘Instructing herself by fad or fancy’: Depictions and Fictions of Connoisseuses and Femmes Savantes in Eighteenth-Century ParisBelinda ScerriChapter 9Portraits of Female Mentors in Aemilia Lanyer’s Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (1611)Aurélie GriffinChapter 10Matrona Docta: Elizabeth Carter and Catherine Macaulay in the Guise of the Roman MatronaSeren NolanPart III: The Diachronic Dynamics of Female Intellectual AuthorityChapter 11Portraits of Mary, Queen of Scots, as an Intellectual in Seventeenth-Century Collective BiographiesArmel Dubois-NaytChapter 12Women Jurists? Representations of Female Intellectual Authority in Eighteenth-Century JurisprudenceLaura Beck VarelaChapter 13‘Diotime’ and ‘La Muse Belgique’: The Intellectual Mobility and Divergent Legacies of Amalia Gallitzin and Marie-Caroline MurrayLien VerpoestChapter 14‘It Wasn’t Enough for Me Just to Be a Singer’: (Self-)Representations of the ‘German Prima Donna’ Gertrud Elisabeth MaraVera ViehöverAbout the AuthorsPlatesInterdisciplinary and cross-cultural view on authority construction among early modern female intellectualsThe complex relation between gender and the representation of intellectual authority has deep roots in European history. Portraits and Poses adopts a historical approach to shed new light on this topical subject. It addresses various modes and strategies by which learned women (authors, scientists, jurists, midwifes, painters, and others) sought to negotiate and legitimise their authority at the dawn of modern science in Early Modern and Enlightenment Europe (1600–1800). This volume explores the transnational dimensions of intellectual networks in France, Italy, Britain, the German states and the Low Countries. Drawing on a wide range of case studies from different spheres of professionalisation, it examines both individual and collective constructions of female intellectual authority through word and image. In its innovative combination of an interdisciplinary and transnational approach, this volume contributes to the growing literature on women and intellectual authority in the Early Modern Era and outlines contours for future research.The complex relation between gender and the representation of intellectual authority has deep roots in European history. Portraits and Poses adopts a historical approach to shed new light on this topical subject. It addresses various modes and strategies by which learned women (authors, scientists, jurists, midwifes, painters, and others) sought to negotiate and legitimise their authority at the dawn of modern science in Early Modern and Enlightenment Europe (1600–1800). This volume explores the transnational dimensions of intellectual networks in France, Italy, Britain, the German states and the Low Countries, among others. Drawing on a wide range of case studies from different spheres of professionalisation, it examines both individual and collective constructions of female intellectual authority through word and image. In its innovative combination of an interdisciplinary and transnational approach, this volume contributes to the growing literature on women and intellectual authority in the Early Modern Era and outlines contours for future research.