Introduction : Women and the cultures of collecting
1. Science, gender and collecting : the Dutch eighteenth-century Ladies' Society for Physical Sciences of Middelburg
2. Between art and science : portraits of citrus fruit for Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici
3. Anne Vallayer-Coster's Still life with sea shells and coral
4. Maria Sibylla Merian : a woman's pioneering work in entomology
5. Sarah Sophia Banks's coin collection : female networks of exchange
6. Conversing with collecting the world : elite female sociability and learning through objects in the Age of Enlightenment
7. Portrait of Charlotte de France : from Naples to Sicily, a collection in transit
8. The collecting activity of Catherine II in eighteenth-century Russia : pioneering action or sheer demonstration of power?
9. I made memorandums : Mary Hamilton, sociability, and antiquarianism in the eighteenth-century collection
10. Eleanor Coade, John Soane, and the Coade caryatid
11. Anne Wagner's album (1795-1805) : collecting feminine friendship
12. An art cabinet in miniature : the dollhouse of Petronella Oortman
13. Collection, display, and conservation : the Print Room at Castletown House
14. Olivia Lanza di Mazzarino (1893-1970) : a lady's collection of eighteenth-century folding fans.