ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830 (ISSN 2157-7129) is an open access, interactive, scholarly journal, launched in 2011 by the Aphra Behn Society. The journal is supported by the University of South Florida Tampa Library. The journal focuses on gender and women’s issues, and all aspects of women in the arts in the long eighteenth century, especially literature, visual arts, music, performance art, film criticism, and production arts.
Its public scholarship blog, ABOPublic, publishes shorter articles and interactive content geared toward a public audience. It also houses Ask Aphra, a professional advice column.
Current Issue: Volume 9, Issue 2 (2019) Fall 2019
Scholarship
“The Tranquility of a Society of Females”: Mary Morgan’s A Tour to Milford Haven, Elizabeth Montagu, and the Transformative Politics of Female Governance
Linda J. Van Netten Blimke
Pedagogy
Societal Polyphony in Burney and Austen: Using Digital Tools to Invite Students into the Conversation
Bethany Williamson
Digital Humanities
The Strength of Weak Ties: Eliza Haywood’s Social Network in The Dunciad in Four Books (1743)
Ileana Baird Dr.
Review of Margaret Cavendish’s Poems and Fancies
James Fitzmaurice
