The History of British Women’s Writing, 1750–1830

Front Matter....Pages i-xxix
Introduction: Defining ‘Women’s Writing’; or, Writing ‘The History’....Pages 1-26
Front Matter....Pages 27-27
Women and Print Culture, 1750–1830....Pages 29-46
Women’s Travel Writing, 1750–1830....Pages 47-60
Front Matter....Pages 61-61
Bluestocking Women and the Negotiation of Oral, Manuscript, and Print Cultures....Pages 63-83
‘[T]o strike a little out of a road already so much beaten’: Gender, Genre, and the Mid-Century Novel....Pages 84-101
Anglophone Welsh Women’s Poetry 1750–84: Jane Cave and Anne Penny....Pages 102-124
The Poem that Ate America: Helen Maria Williams’s Ode on the Peace (1783)....Pages 125-149
Picturing Benevolence against the Commercial Cry, 1750–98: Or, Sarah Fielding and the Secret Causes of Romanticism....Pages 150-171
Women Writers and Abolition....Pages 172-193
Charlotte Smith, Mary Wollstonecraft, and the Romance of Real Life....Pages 194-206
Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson and the First Year of the War with France....Pages 207-230
Front Matter....Pages 231-231
The Porter Sisters, Women’s Writing, and Historical Fiction....Pages 233-253
Joanna Baillie’s Emblematic Theatre....Pages 254-267
National Internationalism: Women’s Writing and European Literature, 1800–30....Pages 268-287
Jane Austen’s Critical Response to Women’s Writing: ‘a good spot for fault-finding’....Pages 288-300
Mary Tighe and the Coterie of Women Poets in Psyche....Pages 301-320
Influence, Anxiety, and Erasure in Women’s Writing: Romantic becomes Victorian....Pages 321-340
Back Matter....Pages 341-363