WOMEN'S WRITING OF THE ROMANTIC PERIOD 1789-1836: AN ANTHOLOGY
Edited by Harriet Devine Jump
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS CONTENTS
Introduction xi
Acknowledgements xix
Chronology xxi
1789 1 Charlotte Smith: Written in the Churchyard at Middleton in Sussex 1 2 Eleanor Butler: from Diaries 1 3 Elizabeth Hands: A Poem, On the Supposition of an Advertisement appearing in a Morning Paper, of the Publication of a Volume of Poems, by a Servant-Maid 3 4 Hester Lynch Piozzi: from Observations and Reflections made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy and Germany [Italy] 5 5 Anna Seward: Sonnet: 7b France on her Present Exertions 6
1790 6 Mary Wollstonecraft: from A Vindication of the Rights of Men 7 7 Eleanor Butler: from Diaries 9 8 Catharine Macaulay: from Letters on Education 10 9 Helen Maria Williams: from Letters Written in France, in the Summer of 1790 14
1791 10 Anna Barbauld: from Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq. On the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade 16
1792 11 Mary Wollstonecraft: from Vindication of the Rights of Woman 18 12 Clara Reeve: from Plans of Education 22 VI CONTENTS
1793 13 Hannah More: from Village Politics: A Dialogue between Jack Anvil, the Blacksmith, and Tom Hod, the Mason 14 Charlotte Smith: from The Emigrants (Book II) 15 Laetitia Hawkins: from Letters on the Female Mind 16 Mary Hays: from Letters and Essays
1794 17 Hester Lynch Piozzi: from British Synonymy
1795 18 Maria Edgeworth: from Letters for Literary Ladies 19 Ann Yearsley: Anarchy 20 Ann Yearsley: from Dedicated to Louis XVI
1796 21 Mary Wollstonecraft: from Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark 22 Mary Robinson: from Sappho and Phaon
1797 23 Mary Wollstonecraft: On Poetry, and Our Relish for the Beauties of Nature
1798 24 Dorothy Wordsworth: from Journals 25 [Mary Hays]: from An Appeal to the Men of Great Britain in Behalf of Women 26 Matilda Betham: We Wish not the Mechanic Arts to Scan 27 Priscilla Wakefield: from Reflections on the Present Condition of the Female Sex 28 Joanna Baillie: from Introductory Discourse: Plays on the Passions 29 Mary Wollstonecraft: from Hints
1799 30 Anna Seward: To the Poppy 31 Mary Ann Radcliffe: from The Female Advocate 32 'Anne Frances Randall' [Mary Robinson]: from A Letter to the Women of England, on the Injustice of Mental Subordination 33 Hannah More: from Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education 34 MaryAlcock: The Body-Politic
1800 35 Dorothy Wordsworth: from Grasmere Journal 73 36 Jane West: from Letters to a Young Lady 75 CONTENTS yii
1801 37 Elizabeth Hamilton: from Letters on the Elementary Principles of Education 77 38 Mary Robinson: from Memoirs 79
1802 39 Amelia Opie: The Dying Daughter to her Mother 81
1803 40 Dorothy Wordsworth: from A Tour Made in
Scotland 84
1805 41 Mary Tighe: from Psyche; or The Legend of Love 87
1806 42 Mary Robinson: Stanzas to a Friend who wished to have my Portrait 89 1807 43 Anne Grant: from Letters from the Mountains 91 44 Elizabeth Inchbald: from On Novel Writing 94 45 Charlotte Smith: from Beachy Head 96
1808 46 Felicia Hemans: from England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism 97
1809 47 Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan: from Patriotic Sketches of Ireland 99
1810 48 Lucy Aikin: from Epistles on the Character and Conditions of Women 100 49 Anna Barbauld: from On the Origin and Progress of Novel Writing 102
1811 50 Elizabeth Hamilton: from Observations on the Power of Imagination 104 51 Mary Tighe: Written at Scarborough, August, 1799 108
1812 52 Anna Barbauld: from Eighteen Hundred and Eleven: A Poem 109
1814 53 Dorothy Wordsworth: from A Narrative Concerning George and Sarah Green 111 54 Isabella Lickbarrow: Introductory Address: To the Muse 114 55 Claire Clairmont: from Journals 115 viii CONTENTS
1815 56 Mary Ann Lamb: On Needlework 117
1816 57 Mary Shelley: from History of a Six Weeks' Tour 122 58 Jane Taylor: from Prejudice 124
1817 59 Anne Lister: from Diaries 126
1818 60 Elizabeth Hamilton: from Journals 127 61 Anne Lister: from Diaries 129
1819 62 Anne Lister: from Diaries 129 63 Eleanor Butler: from Diaries 129
1820 64 Anne Lister: from Diaries 130
1821 65 Anne Lister: from Diaries 131 66 Mary Hays: from Caroline, Wife of George IV 131 67 Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan: from Italy 135
1822 68 Harriet Martineau: On Female Education
1823 69 Felicia Hemans: The Voice of Spring
1824 70 Mary Shelley: On Ghosts
1825 71 Harriette Wilson: from Memoirs 153 72 Maria Jane Jewsbury: from Woman's Love 155
1826 73 Anna Barbauld: from On Female Studies 158 74 Ann Radcliffe: from On the Supernatural in Poetry 160
1827 75 Claire Clairmont: from Journals 163
1828 76 Felicia Hemans: Properzia Rossi 164
1829 77 Laetitia Landon: from A History of the Lyre 168 78 Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan: from Mathematical Ladies . 168 79 Felicia Hemans: Woman and Fame 170 80 Anna Jameson: from Heroines of Modern Poetry 171 CONTENTS JX
81 Caroline Lamb: Thou Woulds 't Not Do What I Have Done 173 82 Caroline Lamb: Lines to Harriette Wilson 173
1830 83 Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan: from Anglomania 174
1831 84 Maria Jane Jewsbury: Review of Joanna Baillie, 'The Nature and Dignity of Christ 176 85 Maria Jane Jewsbury: from Review of Shelley, 'The Wandering Jew' 178
1832 86 Frances Trollope: from Domestic Manners of the Americans 181
1833 87 Sarah Flower Adams: from A National Gallery 184
1834 88 Marguerite, Countess of Blessington: from Conversations with Byron 187 89 Mary Leman Grimstone: Acephala 190
1835 90 Laetitia Landon: from On the Character of Mrs Heman's Writings 196 91 Laetitia Landon: The Factory 199
1836 92 Caroline Bowles: from The Birthday 202
Notes 204
Biographical notes 219
Bibliography 234
Index of authors 239
Index of themes 240