Золотая ручка: дамская литература XVIII-XIX вв.

W hile we're on the subject of Anna Ioannovna , w e might as well pause for a moment to take note of Mavra Egor o vna Š epeleva (1 708 -17 59 ), who would seem to be the next woman writer in order of birth date, although she has largely fallen between the cracks of literary history. Š epeleva is not mentioned in Golicyn , for example ( which I ' ve indicated by adding an "n" for "new" to her number ) , but she does appear a s the chronological successor to Natal'ja Alekseevna in Lurana O'Malley's review of eighteenth-century women 's dramaturgy (1 7 ) . Š epeleva left a more evident trace in socio - political h istory: her prominent career in elite circles began in 1719 with her appointment to the retinue of Anna Petrovna, a distant relation of Anna Ioannovna and daughter of Peter the Great . Most important , however, was Š epeleva ' s intimate friendship with Anna Petrovna ' s sister, Elizaveta Petrovna , who became Russi...

We are now going to work through a rough patch in our list. Our project, it will be recalled, is to discuss the individual women writers treated in  N. N. Golicyn  in chronological order, which is to say according to the order of their birth dates as indicated on the NEWW Women Writers VRE . But what to do when the dates don't match the name?  NEWW's number 4 woman bears the dates 1693-1740, for example, but these don't correspond to the name listed with them, that of "Anna Ivanovna  Vel' jaševa-Volynceva ", a woman writer from the second half  of the 1700s . Why the error?  Well, there would seem to be some confusion between  Vel' jaševa-Volynceva and another  " Anna Ivanovna " , namely the   Empress  Anna I vanovna, better known as  Anna I oannovna (her father, Tsar Ivan V, who co-ruled with Peter the Great, was known as "Ioann", an older form of "Ivan"), who was indeed born in 1693 and died in 1740. Anna Ioannovna (...