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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
November 2009
Print publication year:
2006
Online ISBN:
9780511484513

Book description

Drawing on three decades of feminist scholarship bent on rediscovering lost and abandoned women writers, Susan Staves provides a comprehensive history of women's writing in Britain from the Restoration to the French Revolution. This major work of criticism also offers fresh insights about women's writing in all literary forms, not only fiction, but also poetry, drama, memoir, autobiography, biography, history, essay, translation and the familiar letter. Authors celebrated in their own time and who have been neglected, and those who have been revalued and studied, are given equal attention. The book's organisation by chronology and its attention to history challenge the way we periodise literary history. Each chapter includes a list of key works written in the period covered, as well as a narrative and critical assessment of the works. This magisterial work includes a comprehensive bibliography and list of prevalent editions of the authors discussed.

Reviews

Review of the hardback:‘The decades of expertise evident here in the seemingly effortless syntheses of historical movements, and incisive arguments about a wide spectrum of authors are presented in wonderful prose, like backbone under fine linen. Any serious scholar of early women writers must own this book. As an aid to research it is a treat; as a teaching resource, a trove; as a meditation on what we are all about in our current reading of early women's texts, a challenge.'

Chantel Lavoie Source: Eighteenth-Century Book Reviews Online

Review of the hardback:‘An astute and informed history interested in observing complex patterns of continuity and change, and on occasion, instances of regression ... In its skillful narrative articulations, its inclusiveness, and its attentive close readings, this literary history generously fulfils its stated objective and in the process compliments the intelligence of both eighteenth-century writers and twenty-first-century readers.'

April London Source: Eighteenth-Century Studies

Review of the hardback:‘This is a beautifully produced and immensely valuable work by one of the most learned scholars of eighteenth-century British literature now writing. ... Despite its size, this enjoyable book is a model of careful reading, orderly thinking, and elegant presentation, both a work of interpretation and a useful reference tool. Staves brings texts to light and raises questions about them that will guide future scholarship.'

Toni Bowers Source: Journal of British Studies

Review of the hardback:‘Susan Staves's A Literary History of Women's Writing in Britain, 1660–1789 is a remarkable achievement. For the depth and breadth of her reading alone, the volume deserves a place in the library of all literary scholars working on the history and literature of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.'

Frances Ferguson Source: Modern Philology

Review of the hardback:‘Bringing together a range of familiar and relatively less well-known writers and their historical and biographical details, Staves' perspective reinvigorates our existing understanding of her subjects, while realigning the extent and nature of their contribution to literary history … Staves's history … is invaluable not least of all because of her methodology. Staves is interested in the aesthetic merit of the writings of her subjects, an approach which does not involve promoting writers solely in accordance with their feminist credentials.'

Anna Fitzer Source: Women's Writing

Review of the hardback:‘To the vexed question of whether literary historians should make aesthetic judgments Staves answers … in the affirmative, cogently arguing that moving out of ‘hermenutic circle' of literary standards developed in and for a male canon means adapting criteria for aesthetic value, not rejecting them. … This magisterial book justifies Staves's confidence in the possibility of her enterprise. … When, as here, the appetite for a wide range of texts is voracious, the historical imagination is generous, and the critical judgment is astute, it is possible to write very good literary history indeed.'

Jane Spencer Source: Romanticism

Review of the hardback:‘Susan Staves's meticulous and encyclopaedic study of women's writing from the Restoration to the outbreak of the French Revolution is something of a paradox. The product of some forty years of research, this literary history is, nonetheless, absolutely of its moment: both a compendious account of the fruits of four decades of feminist scholarship, and a subtly argued manifesto for the future of our field. Students new to the subject are presented with informative and helpfully contextualized readings of a rich array of texts, while even the most enthusiastic and knowledgeable scholars of women's writing are bound to discover works about which they knew little before.'

Jennie Batchelor Source: Notes and Queries

Review of the hardback:‘If … there has for a couple of decades been a hesitation to attempt women's literary history for the eighteenth century on a grand scale, there has been no lack of excellent, enabling work on individual writers or genres. Nourished by this work, Staves's own depth and breadth of historical scholarship are distilled into insightful generalisations about specific cultural moments … Staves admirably demonstrates the viability of a feminist criticism which holds that the reputation and ultimate canonical place of eighteenth-century women writers can withstand, even benefit from, a scrutiny of the complete range of their literary expression.'

Betty Schellenberg Source: Eighteenth-Century Fiction

Review of the hardback:‘… an indispensable tool. Staves's prose is direct, clear, and engaging enough for students, and her bibliography of secondary sources effectively constitutes a reading list for an eighteenth-century field exam … Yet her nuanced readings of texts and careful connections between developing women's literary genealogies make the book rewarding for the specialist as well. This literary history is invaluable in its delineation of developing themes and ideas in women's writing over the long eighteenth century.'

Kathryn Stong Source: Women's Studies

Review of the hardback:‘A Literary History of Women's Writing in Britain, 1660–1789 is a tour de force, a comprehensive guide that, just as Staves claims, shifts our focus from writers' lives to their writings, and from current theories to their original context. Although this book is sure to stir debate rather than settle a women's canon, it marks the noble beginning of an overdue process.'

Claudia Thomas Source: Eighteenth-Century Life

Review of the hardback:'… monumental work …'

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Recommended modern editions
Adams, Abigail. Adams Family Correspondence. Ed. L. H. Butterfield, et al. 6 vols. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1963–93.
Astell, Mary. Astell: Political Writings. Ed. Patricia Springborg. Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Barbauld, Anna Letitia Aikin. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld. Ed. William McCarthy and Elizabeth Kraft. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994.
Behn, Aphra. The Works of Aphra Behn. 7 vols. Ed. Janet Todd. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1992–96.
Bradstreet, Anne. The Complete Works of Anne Bradstreet. Ed. Joseph R. McElrath, Jr. and Allan P. Robb. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1981.
Brooke, Frances. Rosina. Ambrosian Singers and the London Symphony Orchestra. Decca/London Records [1967].
Brooke, FrancesThe Excursion. Ed. Paula R. Backscheider and Hope D. Cotton. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1997.
Brooke, Frances and Shield, William. Rosina. Ed. John Drummond. London: Stainer & Bell, 1998. (Libretto and score. Vol. lxxii of Musica Britannica: A National Collection of Music.)
Burney, Frances. Evelina, or, The History of Young Lady's Entrance into the World (1778). Ed. Edward A. Bloom with the assistance of Lillian D. Bloom. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1968.
Burney, Frances. The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney. 4 vols. Ed. Lars E. Troide. Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1988.
Burney, FrancesCecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress. Ed. Peter Sabor and Margaret Anne Doody. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Burney, Frances. The Complete Plays of Frances Burney. 2 vols. Ed. Peter Sabor, Sill, Geoffrey M., and Cooke, Stewart J.. Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995.
Carter, Elizabeth. Bluestocking Feminism: Writings of the Bluestocking Circle, vol. ii. Ed. Judith Hawley. London: Pickering & Chatto, 1999.
Cavendish, Margaret. The Life of William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle. To which is added the True Relation of my Birth, Breeding, and Life. Ed. C. H. Firth. 2nd edn. London: G. Routledge; New York: E. P. Dutton, 1906.
Cavendish, Margaret. The Description of a New World Called the Blazing World and Other Writing. Ed. Kate Lilley. New York: New York University Press, 1992.
Centlivre, Susanna. Eighteenth-Century Women Playwrights,. vol. iii. Ed. Jacqueline Pearson. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2001 (4 plays).
Centlivre, Susanna. The Wonder: A Woman Keeps a Secret. Ed. John O'Brien. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2003.
Chapone, Hester. Bluestocking Feminism: Writings of the Bluestocking Circle, vol. iii. Ed. Rhoda Zuk. London: Pickering & Chatto, 1999.
Charke, Charlotte. A Narrative of the Life of Mrs Charlotte Charke. Ed. Robert Rehder. Pickering & Chatto, 1999.
Chudleigh, Mary. The Poems and Prose of Mary, Lady Chudleigh. Ed. Margaret J. M. Ezell. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Cockburn, Catherine Trotter. Eighteenth-Century Women Playwrights, vol. ii. Ed. Anne Kelly. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2001 (2 plays).
Cowley, Hannah. Eighteenth-Century Women Playwrights, vol. v. Ed. Antje Blank. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2001 (4 plays).
Davys, Mary. The Reform'd Coquet, Familiar Letters Betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady, and The Accomplish'd Rake. Ed. Martha F. Bowden. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1999.
Fielding, Sarah. The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia. Ed. by Christopher D. Johnson. Lewisburg, Penn.: Bucknell University Press, 1994.
Fielding, Sarah. The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last. Ed. Peter Sabor. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1998.
Finch, Anne. The Poems of Anne Countess of Winchilsea. Ed. Myra Reynolds. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1903.
Finch, Anne. The Anne Finch Wellesley Manuscript Poems: A Critical Edition. Ed. Barbara McGovern and Charles H. Hinnant. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998 (53 poems not published in Finch's lifetime and not included in Reynolds edition).
Griffith, Elizabeth. The Delicate Distress. Ed. Cynthia Booth Ricciardi and Susan Staves. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1997.
Griffith, Elizabeth. Eighteenth-Century Women Playwrights, vol. iv. Ed. Betty Rizzo. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2001 (4 plays).
Haywood, Eliza. Love in Excess. Ed. David Oakleaf. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 1996.
Haywood, Eliza. The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless. Ed. Beth Fowkes-Tobin. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Haywood, Eliza. Adventures of Eovaai, Princess of Ijavoo: A Pre-Adamitical History. Ed. Earla Wilputte. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 1999.
Haywood, Eliza. The Injur'd Husband, or The Mistaken Resentment; and Lasselia, or, The Self-Abandoned. Ed. Jerry C. Beasley. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1999.
Haywood, Eliza. Selected Works of Eliza Haywood. Ed. Alexander Petit, Margo Collins, Christine Blouch, Rebecca Sayers Hanson, and Kathryn B. King. 6 vols. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2000.
Hollis, Frances Anne, Lady Vane. “Memoirs of a Lady of Quality.” In Smollett, Tobias. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle in Which are Included Memoirs of a Lady of Quality. Ed. James L. Clifford. London: Oxford University Press, 1964.
Hutchinson, Lucy. The Life of Colonel Hutchinson. Ed. James Sutherland. London: Oxford University Press, 1973.
Inchbald, Elizabeth. Eighteenth-Century Women Playwrights, vol. vi. Ed. Angela Smallwood. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2001 (4 plays).
Leapor, Mary. The Works of Mary Leapor. Ed. Richard Greene and Ann Messenger. Oxford University Press, 1999.
Lee, Sophia. The Recess, or, A Tale of Other Times. Ed. April Alliston. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2000.
Lennox, Charlotte. The Female Quixote, or, The Adventures of Arabella. Ed. Margaret Dalziel. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Lennox, Charlotte. The Life of Harriot Stuart, Written by Herself. Ed. Susan Kubica Howard. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson Press; London: Associated University Presses, 1995.
Manley, Delarivière. The New Atalantis. Ed. Rosalind Ballaster. London: Pickering and Chatto, 1991. (Valuable introduction and notes, but unsatisfactory text.)
Manley, Delarivière. The Adventures of Rivella. Ed. Katherine Zelinsky. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 1999. (Useful supporting material and notes, but sporadically modernized text and inadequate textual information.)
Manley, Delarivière. Eighteenth-Century Women Playwrights, vol. i. Ed. Margarete Rubik and Eva Mueller-Zettelman. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2001 (2 plays).
Montagu, Mary Wortley. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Ed. Robert Halsband. 3 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965.
Montagu, Mary Wortley. Embassy to Constantinople: The Travels of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Ed. Christopher Pick. Introduction by Dervla Murphy. New York: New Amsterdam, 1988. (Lavish and illuminating contemporary illustrations. Text based on Robert Halsband's modernized version of his own text and notes derived from Halsband.)
Montagu, Mary Wortley. Essays and Poems and Simplicity, A Comedy. Ed. Robert Halsband and Isobel Grundy. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993.
Montagu, Mary Wortley. Romance Writings. Ed. Isobel Grundy. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996.
Osborn, Sarah Byng. Letters of Sarah Byng Osborn, 1721–1773, From the Collection of the Hon. Mrs. McDonnell. Ed. John McClelland. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1930.
Philips, Katherine. The Collected Works of Katherine Philips, The Matchless Orinda. Ed. Patrick Thomas. 3 vols. Stump Cross, Essex: Stump Cross Books, 1990.
Pilkington, Laetitia. Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington. Ed. A. C. Elias, Jr. 2 vols. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1997.
Pinckney, Eliza Lucas. The Letterbook of Eliza Lucas Pinckney. Ed. Elise Pinckney and Marvin R. Zahniser. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1972.
Piozzi, Hester [Lynch] Thrale. Thraliana. The Diary of Mrs. Hester Lynch Thrale (Later Mrs. Piozzi), 1776–1809. Ed. Katharine C. Balderston. 2 vols. 2nd edn. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1951.
Piozzi, Hester Thrale. The Letters of Samuel Johnson: With Mrs. Thrale's Genuine Letters to Him. Ed. R. W. Chapman. 3 vols. Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press, 1984.
Piozzi, Hester Thrale. The Piozzi Letters: Correspondence of Hester Lynch Piozzi, 1784–1821 (formerly Mrs. Thrale). Ed. Edward A. Bloom and Lillian D. Bloom. 6 vols. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Press, 19892000.
Pix, Mary. Eighteenth-Century Women Playwrights, vol. ii. Ed. Anne Kelly. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2001 (2 plays).
Reeve, Clara. The Old English Baron: a Gothic Story. Ed. James Trainer. London: Oxford University Press, 1967.
Reeve, Clara. Bluestocking Feminism: Writings of the Bluestocking Circle, vol. vi. Ed. Gary Kelly. London: Pickering & Chatto, 1999.
Rowe, Elizabeth Singer. The Poetry of Elizabeth Singer Rowe (1674–1737). Ed. Madeleine Forell Marshall. Studies in Women and Religion, vol. xxv. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellon Press [1987]. (Useful introduction and collection, but incomplete and noncritical texts.)
Rowlandson, Mary. The Sovereignty and Goodness of God: Together with the Faithfulness of his Promises Displayed: Being a Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson and Related Documents. Ed. Neal Salisbury. Boston: Bedford Books, 1997.
Scott, Sarah. A Description of Millenium Hall. Ed. Gary Kelly. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 1995.
Scott, Sarah. Bluestocking Feminism: Writings of the Bluestocking Circle, vols. v and vi. Ed. Gary Kelly. London: Pickering & Chatto, 1999.
Seward, Anna. Bluestocking Feminism: Writings of the Bluestocking Circle, vol. iv. Ed. Jennifer Kelly. London: Pickering & Chatto, 1999.
Sheridan, Frances. The Plays of Frances Sheridan. Ed. Robert Hogan and Jerry C. Beasley. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1984.
Sheridan, Frances. Oriental Tales. Ed. Robert L. Mack. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992. (“The History of Nourjahad.”)
Smith, Charlotte. The Poems of Charlotte Smith. Ed. Stuart Curran. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Smith, Charlotte. The Collected Letters of Charlotte Smith. Ed. Judith Phillips Stanton. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003.
Smith, Charlotte. Emmeline: The Orphan of the Castle. Ed. Loraine Fletcher. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2003.
Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Ed. Janet Todd and Marilyn Butler. 7 vols. New York: New York University Press, 1989.
Wheatley, Phillis. The Poems of Phillis Wheatley: Revised and Enlarged Edition. Ed. Julian D. Mason, Jr. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989.
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GENERAL WORKS
Adburgham, Alison. Women in Print: Writing Women and Women's Magazines from the Restoration to the Accession of Victoria. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1972.
Agorni, Mirella. Translating Italy for the Eighteenth Century: Women, Translation, and Travel Writing, 1739–1797. Manchester: St. Jerome, 2002.
Anderson, Misty G.Female Playwrights and Eighteenth-Century Comedy: Negotiating Marriage on the London Stage. New York: Palgrave, 2002.
Armstrong, Isobel, ed. New Feminist Discourses: Critical Essays on Theories and Texts. London: Routledge, 1992.
Armstrong, Isobel and Blain, Virginia, eds. Women's Poetry of the Enlightenment: The Making of a Canon, 1730–1820. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's Press in Association with the Centre for English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 1999.
Ballaster, Rosalind. Seductive Forms: Women's Amatory Fiction from 1684 to 1740. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992.
Blodgett, Harriet. Centuries of Female Days: Englishwomen's Private Diaries. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1988.
Brant, Clare and Purkiss, Diana, eds. Women, Texts, and Histories, 1575–1760. London: Routledge, 1992.
Brink, J. R.Female Scholars: A Tradition of Learned Women before 1800. Montreal: Eden Press Women's Publications, 1980.
Christmas, William J.The Labr'ing Muses: Work, Writing, and the Social Order in English Plebian Poetry, 1730–1830. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2001.
Clarke, Norma. The Rise and Fall of the Woman of Letters. London: Pimlico, 2004.
Cotton, Nancy. Women Playwrights in England, c. 1363–1750. Lewisburg, Penn.: Bucknell University Press, 1980.
Craft-Fairchild, Catherine. Masquerade and Gender: Disguise and Female Identity in Eighteenth-Century Fictions by Women. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993.
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D'Monté, Rebecca and Pohl, Nicole. Female Communities, 1600–1800: Literary Visions and Cultural Realities. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999.
Donkin, Ellen. Getting into the Act: Women Playwrights in London, 1776–1829. London: Routledge, 1995.
Donovan, Josephine. Women and the Rise of the Novel, 1405–1726. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999.
Ezell, Margaret. Writing Women's Literary History. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.
Ferguson, Moira. Subject to Others: British Women Writers and Colonial Slavery, 1670–1834. London: Routledge, 1992.
Gallagher, Catherine. Nobody's Story: The Vanishing Acts of Women Writers in the Marketplace, 1670–1820. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
Greider, Josephine. Translations of French Sentimental Prose Fiction in Late Eighteenth-Century England: The History of a Vogue. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1975.
Griffin, Dustin H.Literary Patronage in England, 1650–1800. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Grundy, Isobel and Wiseman, Susan. Women, Writing, History, 1640–1740. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992.
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Horner, Joyce M. The English Women Novelists and their Connection with the Feminist Movement (1688–1787). Smith College Studies in Modern Languages, vol. xi, nos. 1 and 2 (1929–30).
Ingrassia, Catherine. Authorship, Commerce, and Gender in Early Eighteenth-Century England: A Culture of Paper Credit. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Johns, Alessa. Women's Utopias of the Eighteenth Century. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003.
Justice, George L. and Tinker, Nathan. Women's Writing and the Circulation of Ideas: Manuscript Publication in England, 1550–1800. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Landry, Donna. The Muses of Resistance: Laboring-class Women's Poetry in Britain, 1739–1796. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
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PUBLIC WOMEN: THE RESTORATION TO THE DEATH OF APHRA BEHN, 1660–1689
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Downing, David. “ ‘Streams of Scripture Comfort’: Mary Rowlandson's Typological Use of the Bible.” Early American Literature 15 (1980–81), 252–59.
Duyfhuizen, Bernard. “ ‘That Which I Dare Not Name’: Aphra Behn's ‘The Willing Mistress.’ELH 58 (1991), 63–82.
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Ferguson, Margaret W.Juggling the Categories of Race, Class and Gender: Aphra Behn's Oroonoko.” Women's Studies 19 (1991), 159–81.
Gallagher, Catherine. “Who Was that Masked Woman? The Prostitute and the Playwright in the Comedies of Aphra Behn.” Women's Studies 15 (1988), 23–42.
Gardiner, Judith Kegan. “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Utopian Longings in Behn's Lyric Poetry.” In Rereading Aphra Behn: History, Theory, and Criticism. Ed. Hutner, Heidi. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993, 273–300.
Henwood, Dawn. “Mary Rowlandson and the Psalms: The Textuality of Survival.” Early American Literature 32 (1997), 169–86.
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Hughes, Derek. The Theatre of Aphra Behn. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2001.
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Lilley, Kate. “True State Within: Women's Elegy, 1640–1740.” In Women, Writing, History, 1640–1740. Ed. Grundy, Isobel and Wiseman, Susan. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992, 72–82.
Mermin, Dorothy. “Women Becoming Poets: Katherine Philips, Aphra Behn, Anne Finch.” ELH 57 (1990), 335–55.
Oser, Lee. “Almost a Golden World: Sidney, Spenser, and Puritan Conflict in Bradstreet's ‘Contemplations.’Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature 52 (2000), 187–202.
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Pearson, Jacqueline. “Gender and Narrative in the Fiction of Aphra Behn, ii.” Review of English Studies 42 (1991), 179–90.
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PARTISANS OF VIRTUE AND RELIGION, 1689–1702
Atherton, Margaret. “Cartesian Reason and Gendered Reason.” In A Mind of her Own. Ed. Anthony, Louise and Will, Charlotte. Boulder, Colo: Westview Press, 1992, 19–34.
Backscheider, Paula. Spectacular Politics: Theatrical Power and Mass Culture in Early Modern England. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.
Boulton, Martha Brandt. “Some Aspects of the Philosophy of Catharine Trotter.” Journal of the History of Philosophy 31 (1993), 565–88.
Clark, Constance. Three Augustan Women Playwrights. New York: Peter Lang, 1986.
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Frankel, Lois. “Damaris Cudworth Masham: A Seventeenth-Century Feminist Philosopher.” In Hypathia's Daughters: Fifteen Hundred Years of Women Philosophers. Ed. McAlister, Linda Lopez. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996, 128–38.
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POLITICS, GALLANTRY, AND LADIES IN THE REIGN OF QUEEN ANNE, 1702–1714
Adam, Michel. “L'héroïne tragique dans le théâtre de Catharine Trotter.” In Aspects du théâtre anglais, 1554–1730. Ed. Rigaud, Nadia. Aix-en-Provence: University of Provence, 1987, 97–115.
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Needham, Gwendolyn. “Mary de la Riviere Manley, Tory Defender.” Huntington Library Quarterly 12 (1948–9), 255–85.
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BATTLE JOINED, 1715–1737
Aravamunden, Srinivas. “Lady Mary Wortley Montagu in the Hammam: Masquerade, Womanliness, and Levantization.” ELH 62 (1995), 69–104.
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Elias, A. C., Jr. “Editing Minor Writers: The Case of Laetitia Pilkington and Mary Barber.” In 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in Early Modern England. Vol. iii. Ed. Cope, Kevin. New York: AMS Press, 1997, 129–47.
Fairchild, Hoxie Neal Fairchild. Religious Trends in English Poetry, vol. i: 1700–1740. Protestantism and the Cult of Sentiment. New York: Columbia University Press, 1939.
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Halsband, Robert. “The First English Version of Marivaux's Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard.” Modern Philology 79 (1981), 16–23. (M. Montagu's version)
Heffernan, Teresa. “Feminism Against the East/West Divide: Lady Mary's Turkish Embassy Letters.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 33 (2000), 201–15.
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Troost, Linda Veronika. “Geography and Gender: Mary Chandler and Alexander Pope.” In Pope, Swift, and Women Writers. Ed. Mell, Donald C.. Newark, NJ: University of Delaware, 1996.
WOMEN AS MEMBERS OF THE LITERARY FAMILY, 1737–1756
Baruth, Philip E., ed. Introducing Charlotte Charke: Actress, Author, Enigma. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998.
Bree, Linda. Sarah Fielding. New York: Twayne & Prentice Hall, 1996.
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Kelsall, Malcolm. “Introduction.” Sarah Fielding, The Adventures of David Simple. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.
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BLUESTOCKINGS AND SENTIMENTAL WRITERS, 1756–1776
Antor, Heinz. “The International Contexts of Frances Brooke's The History of Emily Montague (1769).” In English Literatures in International Contexts. Ed. Antor, Hienz and Stierstorfer, Klaus. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, 2000, 245–77.
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Staves, Susan. “The Liberty of a She-Subject of England”: Rights Rhetoric and the Female Thucydides.” Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature 1 (1989), 161–83. (Macaulay)
Staves, Susan. “French Fire, English Asbestos: Ninon de Lenclos and Elizabeth Griffith.” Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 314 (1993), 193–205.
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ROMANCE AND COMEDY, 1777–1789
Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan: An Account of Anna Seward and her Acquaintance with Dr. Johnson, Boswell, and others of Their Time. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1931.
Bilger, Audrey. “Mocking the ‘Lords of Creation’: Comic Male Characters in Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth and Jane Austen.” Women's Writing 1 (1994), 77–97.
Brewer, John. “ ‘Queen Muse of Britain’: Anna Seward of Lichfield and the Literary Provinces.” In The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
Carr, Diana Guiragossian. “Le Père de famille et sa descendance anglaise.” Enlightenment Studies in Honor of Lester G. Crocker. Ed. Albert J. Bingham and Virgil W. Trapizio. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation at the Taylor Institute, 1979, 49–58.
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