Anthologies

Women's Writing of the Romantic Period

1789-1836: An Anthology

Edited by Harriet Devine Jump

Edinbugh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997

CONTENTS

Introduction

Acknowledgements

Chronology

1789

Charlotte Smith: Written in the Churchyard at Middleton in Sussex

Eleanor Butler: from Diaries

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

Hester Lynch Piozzi: from Observations and Reflections made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy and Germany [Italy]

Anna Seward: Sonnet: To France on her Present Exertions

1790

Mary Wollstonecraft: from A Vindication of the Rights of Men

Eleanor Butler: from Diaries

Catharine Macaulay: from Letters on Education

Helen Maria Williams: from Letters Written in France, in the Summer of 1790

1791

Anna Barbauld: from Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq. On the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade

1792

Mary Wollstonecraft: from Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Clara Reeve: from Plans of Education

1793

Hannah More: from Village Politics: A Dialogue between Jack Anvil, the Blacksmith, and Tom Hod, the Mason

Charlotte Smith: from The Emigrants (Book II)

Laetitia Hawkins: from Letters on the Female Mind

May Hays: from Letters and Essays

1794

Hester Lynch Piozzi: from British Synonymy

1795

Maria Edgeworth: from Letters for Literary Ladies

Ann Yearsley: Anarchy

Ann Yearsley: from Dedicated to Louis XVI

1796

Mary Wollstonecraft: from Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark

Mary Robinson: from Sappho and Phaon

1797

Mary Wollstonecraft: On Poetry, and Our Relish for the Beauties of Nature

1798

Dorothy Wordsworth: from Journals

[Mary Hays]: from An Appeal to the Men of Great Britain in Behalf of Women

Matilda Betham: We Wish not the Mechanic Arts to Scan

Priscilla Wakefield: from Reflections on the Present Condition of the Female Sex

Joanna Baillie: from Introductory Discourse: Plays on the Passions

Mary Wollstonecraft: from Hints

1799

Anna Seward: To the Poppy

Mary Ann Radcliffe: from The Female Advocate

'Anne Frances Randall' [Mary Robinson]: from A Letter to the Women of England, on the Injustice of Mental Insubordination

Hannah More: from Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education

Mary Alcock: The Body-Politic

1800

Dorothy Wordsworth: from Grasmere Journal

Jane West: from Letters to a Young Lady

1801

Elizabeth Hamilton: from Letters on the Elementary Principles of Education

Mary Robinson: from Memoirs

1802

Amelia Opie: The Dying Daughter to her Mother

1803

Dorothy Wordsworth: from A Tour Made in Scotland

1805

Mary Tighe: from Psyche; or The Legend of Love

1806

Mary Robinson: Stanzas to a Friend who wished to have my Portrait

1807

Anne Grant: from Letters from the Mountains

Elizabeth Inchbald: from On Novel Writing

Charlotte Smith: from Beachy Head

1808

Felicia Hemans: from England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism

1809

Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan: from Patriotic Sketches of Ireland

1810

Lucy Aikin: from Epistles on the Character and Conditions of Women

Anna Barbauld: from On the Origin and Progress of Novel Writing

1811

Elizabeth Hamilton: from Observations on the Power of Imagination

Mary Tighe: Written at Scarborough, August, 1799

1812

Anna Barbauld: from Eighteen Hundred and Eleven: A Poem

1814

Dorothy Wordsworth: from A Narrative Concerning George and Sarah Green

Isabella Lickbarrow: Introductory Address: To the Muse

Claire Clairmont: from Journals

1815

Mary Ann Lamb: On Needlework

1816

Mary Shelley: from History of a Six Weeks' Tour

Jane Taylor: from Prejudice

1817

Anne Lister: from Diaries

1818

Elizabeth Hamilton: from Journals

Anne Lister: from Diaries

1819

Anne Lister: from Diaries

Eleanor Butler: from Diaries

1820

Anne Lister: from Diaries

1821

Anne Lister: from Diaries

Mary Hays: from Caroline, Wife of George IV

Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan: from Italy

1822

Harriet Martineau: On Female Education

1823

Felicia Hemans: The Voice of Spring

1824

Mary Shelley: On Ghosts

1825

Harriette Wilson: from Memoirs

Maria Jane Jewsbury: from Woman's Love

1826

Anna Barbauld: from On Female Studies

Ann Radcliffe: from On the Supernatural in Poetry

1827

Claire Clairmont: from Journals

1828

Felicia Hemans: Properzi Rossi

1829

Laetitia Landon: from A History of the Lyre

Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan: from Mathematical Ladies

Felicia Hemans: Woman and Fame

Anna Jameson: from Heroines of Modern Poetry

Caroline Lamb: Thou Woulds't Not Do What I Have Done

Caroline Lamb: Lines to Harriette Wilson

1830

Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan: from Anglomania

1831

Maria Jane Jewsbury: Review of Joanna Baillie, The Nature and Dignity of Christ'

Maria Jane Jewsbury: Review of Shelley, The Wandering Jew'

1832

Frances Trollope: from Domestic Manners of the Americans

1833

Sarah Flower Adams: from A National Gallery

1834

Marguerite, Countess of Blessington: from Conversations with Byron

Mary Leman Grimstone: Acephala

1835

Laetitia Landon: from On the Character of Mrs Heman's Writings

Laetitia Landon: The Factory

1836

Caroline Bowles: from The Birthday

Notes

Biographical notes

Bibliography

Index of authors

Index of themes

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