Anthologies

The Meridian Anthology of Early Women Writers

British Literary Women from Aphra Behn to Maria Edgeworth 1660-1800

Edited by Katharine M. Rogers and William McCarthy

New York and Ontario: Meridian/Penguin, 1987

Acknowledgements

Editorial Note

Introduction

APHRA BEHN

An Epistle to the Reader . . .

The Golden Age

Oroonoko

ANNE FINCH, COUNTESS OF WINCHILSEA

The Introduction

Fragment

On Myself

A Letter to Daphnis

To Mr. F[inch]

Ardelia's Answer to Ephelia

Friendship Between Ardelia and Ephelia

The Bird and the Arras

The Circuit of Apollo

Clarinda's Indifference . . .

The Unequal Fetters

The Young Rat . . .

The Spleen

To the Nightingale

A Nocturnal Reverie

An Apology for My Fearful Temper . . .

A Supplication for . . . Heaven

MARY ASTELL

from A Serious Proposal

from Part II of A Serious Proposal

from Some Reflections on Marriage

DELARIVIERE MANLEY

The Wife's Resentment

LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU

Selected Letters

The Lover

The Reasons that Induced . . .

Number 6 of The Nonsense

HESTER THRALE PIOZZI

from Thraliana

The Three Warnings

On the Death of Elizabeth Carter

ANNA LAETITIA BARBAULD

Washing-Day

Address to the Opposers of the Repeal . . .

FRANCES BURNEY D'ARBLAY

Selections from Journals

MARY HAYS

from Letters and Essays

from An Appeal to the Men . . .

MARIA EDGEWORTH

An Essay on . . . Self-Justification

A POETICAL MISCELLANY

KATHERINE PHILIPS

A Retired Friendship

An Answer to Another

EPHELIA

To One that Asked Me . . .

To Coridon

ANNE KILLIGREW

Herodias' Daughter . . .

Upon the Saying that My Verses . . .

MARY COLLIER

The Woman's Labor

ELIZABETH CARTER

Written Extempore on the Sea-Shore

MARY LEAPOR

The Sacrifice

Upon Her Play Being Returned

HANNAH MORE

The Riot

CHARLOTTE SMITH

Sonnet I

Sonnet XLIV

ANN YEARSLEY

Addressed to Ignorance

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