Anthologies

Women Romantics 1785-1832:

Writing in Prose

Edited by Jennifer Breen

London: J. M. Dent; Rutland, Vt.: Charles E. Tuttle, 1996.

[Everyman Editions]

CONTENTS

Note on the Editor

Chronology of the Authors' Times

Introduction

Note on the Texts

Women Romantics 1785-1832: Writing in Prose

Mary Wollstonecraft

From Thoughts on the Education of Daughters: Reading

From the Analytical Review:

Article XXV (1789)

Article XVII (1791)

From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: Chapter 9

To Joseph Johnson: Letter 16

From Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark:

Letter 4

Letter 7

Letter: Introductory to a Series of Letters on the Present Character of the French Nation

Letters to Gilbert Imlay:

Letter 69

Letter 70

Letter 71

Letter 73

Letter 74

Letter 75

Letter 76

Letter 77

Letter 78

Anna Seward

Letter 5: To Josiah Wedgwood

Letter 61: To Helen Maria Williams

Letter 66: To Sir Walter Scott

Catherine Macaulay

From Letters on Education:

Letter 14

Letter 15

Letter 22

Helen Maria Williams

From Letters from France:

Letter 4

Mary Hays

From Letters and Essays: No. 3

From the Monthly Magazine: Improvements Suggested in Female Education

Anna Barbauld

Letter to Mrs. Carr

From "On the Origin and Progress of Novel Writing"

Joanna Baillie

Plays on the Passions: From "Introductory Discourse"

Hannah More

From Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education: Chapter 8

From Moral Sketches of Prevailing Opinions and Manners: Unprofitable Reading

Mary Robinson

From Letter to the Women of England on the Injustice of Subordination

From Memoirs of Mary Robinson

Fanny Burney

From Diary and Letters1802

1815

Jane Taylor

From Letter to Miss S. L. C.

The Troublesome Friend

A Letter to Whomsoever It May Concern

Dorothy Wordsworth

From Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth

Letter to Lady Beaumont, April 1806

Letter to Lady Beaumont, September 1806

From A Journal of the Tour on the Continent (1820)

Mary Lamb

On Needlework

Mary Russell Mitford

Letter to Sir William Elford

Our Village

Mary Shelley

From History of a Six Weeks' Tour:

Letter 1: 17 May 1816

Letter 2: 1 June 1816

On Ghosts

Letter to Maria Gisborne, 15 August 1822

Claire Clairmont

From Journal

Frances Trollope

From The Domestic Manners of the Americans: Chapter 22, "Small Landed Proprietors -- Slavery"

Notes

The Authors and their Critics

Suggestions for Further Reading

Acknowledgments

Index of Authors' Names


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