Table of Contents

Introduction
1: Seeing Script in Print
2: Round Hand Character
3: Round Hand's Dominions
4: Johnson's Character
5: Printing the Author's Hand
6: Edgeworth's Autograph
7: Factory Hands
Postscript

About the Author

Aileen Douglas was born in Dublin and did her undergraduate work at Trinity College Dublin. She holds a PhD from Princeton University. For several years she taught at Washington University in St. Louis before returning to Ireland to join the School of English, TCD. Her research interests and publications focus on eighteenth-century print culture, the materiality of writing, women's writing in the long eighteenth century, and Irish writing. She served as Dean of
Undergraduate Studies (2008-2011) and is a fellow of Trinity College Dublin.

Reviews

Her book achieves a high standard both as history and as literary criticism. By discussing shifts in media and the shifting reception of various forms of writing, Douglas improves our knowledge of the Age of Johnson and tells us how our assumptions about handwriting got from that age to our own. She does so elegantly, accurately, and with complete scholarly responsibility.
*Robert DeMaria Jr., Age of Johnson*

Douglas's Work in Hand provides important information and insights..., making an important contribution to a relatively neglected area of scholarship.
*Nichcolas Hudson, University of British Columbia, Eighteenth-Century Life*