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“The press will be the monuments from which the genius of British women will rise to immortal celebrity: their works will, in proportion as their educations are liberal, from year to year, challenge an equal portion of fame, with the labours of their classical male contemporaries.”

Mary Robinson, Letter to the Women of England on the Injustice of Mental Subordination, 1799

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Electronic Texts (Alphabetically by Author’s Name)

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A (Includes Anonymous)

• Acrostics of Self-Inscription by Women Poets of the Romantic Age (Stuart Curran, U Pennsylvania)
• Eliza Acton (1799-1859)
  • Poems (1826) (also in SGML) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
• Mrs. R. Addison
  • Poetry on Different Subjects (1812) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
  • (Note: this is the only copy uncovered in a WorldCat and RLIN search.)
• Anna Laetitia Aikin– see Anna Laetitia Barbauld
• Lucy Aikin (1781-1864)
  • Epistles on Women (1810) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
• The Duchesse d’Angouleme, Madame Elizabeth (Sister of Louis XVI)
  • The Ruin of a Princess, trans. Katherine Prescott Wormeley (Mary Mark Ockerbloom)
• Margravine of Anspach– see Elizabeth Craven
• Anonymous
  • Original Fables (1810), by “A Lady” (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
  • The Sorrows of Yamba, or The Negro Woman’s Lamentation, 1795 (Virginia)
• Jane Austen (1775-1817)
  • Web Pages
    • Jane Austen Information Page (Pemberley)
    • Complete Online Works (Pemberley)
  • Electronic Texts
    • Emma
    • The History of England
    • Lady Susan
    • Letters
    • Love and Freindship
    • Mansfield Park
    • Northanger Abbey
    • Persuasion
    • Plan of a Novel
    • Pride and Prejudice
    • Sense and Sensibility
    • The Watsons

B

• Joanna Baillie (1762-1851)
  • Home Pages and Other Resources
    • Joanna Baillie: An Annotated Bibliography (Ken Bugajski, Romanticism on the Net)
    • Joanna Baillie Page (Guy White, U. Windsor, Canada)
    • photo of the Joanna Baillie Monument in the village of Bothwell, Lanarkshire (Scotland) (Adriana Craciun)
  • Electronic Texts
    • A Collection of Poems (1823) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
    • The Family Legend (1810) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
    • Fugitive Verses (1840) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
    • The Martyr: A Drama (1826) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
    • Metrical Legends of Exalted Characters (1821) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
    • “Night Scenes of Other Times” (1790) (Michael Gamer, UPenn)
  • Critical Commentary
    • “Joanna Baillie,” The Literary Encyclopedia
    • George Saintsbury, “Joanna Baillie,” in the Romanticism volume of the Cambridge History of English and American Literature(1907-21) (Project Bartleby)
• Anne Bannerman (d. 1829)
  • Tales of Superstition and Chivalry (1802), with engravings (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
• Anna Letitia Aikin Barbauld (1743-1825)
  • Home Pages and Other Resources
    • Anna Laetitia Barbauld Web Site (Lisa Vargo & Allison Muri, U.Saskatchewan)
    • Anna Letitia Barbauld Page (Mary Mark Ockerbloom)
    • Anne Laetitia Barbauld: Prose Works (Molly Beverstein and Laura Mandell)
    • Anna Barbauld Chronology (Romantic Circles)
  • Electronic Texts (Published Volumes)
    • Eighteen Hundred and Eleven (1812) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
    • Hymns in Prose for Children(Mary Mark Ockerbloom)
    • Poems (1783) (Mary Mark Ockerbloom)
    • Poems. A Romantic Circles Hypertext Edition (1773) ed. Lisa Vargo and Allison Muri
    • Sins of Government, Sins of the Nation (1793) (Stuart Curran, UPenn)
    • The Works of Anna Letitia Barbauld, with a Memoir by Lucy Aikin(Virginia)
  • Electronic Texts (Individual Items)
    • “Dirge” (Mary Mark Ockerbloom)
    • “Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, A Poem” (Mary Mark Ockerbloom)
    • “The Epiphany” (Mary Mark Ockerbloom)
    • “Epistle To William Wilberforce, Esq. on the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade” (Mary Mark Ockerbloom)
    • “Inscription for an Ice House” (Mary Mark Ockerbloom)
    • “An Inventory of the Furniture in Dr. Priestley’s Study” (Mary Mark Ockerbloom)
    • “Life” (Mary Mark Ockerbloom)
    • “On Romances” (Michael Gamer, UPenn)
    • “On the Death of the Princess Charlotte” (Mary Mark Ockerbloom)
    • “On the King’s Illness” (Mary Mark Ockerbloom)
    • “On the Pleasure Derived from Objects of Terror, with Sir Bertrand. A Fragment” (1773) (Michael Gamer, UPenn)
    • Selected Poems (Stuart Curran, UPenn)
    • “A Thought on Death” (Mary Mark Ockerbloom)
    • “To A Great Nation”, vt. “On the Expected General Rising of the French Nation in 1792″ (Mary Mark Ockerbloom)
    • “To Dr. Priestley, December 29, 1792″ (Mary Mark Ockerbloom)
    • “To Mr. Barbauld, November 14, 1778″ (Mary Mark Ockerbloom)
    • “To Mr. S. T. Coleridge” (Mary Mark Ockerbloom)
    • “Washing-day” (Mary Mark Ockerbloom)
  • Critical Commentary
    • “Anna Laetitia Barbauld,” The Literary Encyclopedia
    • Anna Laetitia Barbauld: Selected Bibliography (Daniel White, U of Puget Sound)
    • “Observations on Female Literature in General, Including Some Particulars Relating to Mrs. Montagu and Mrs. Barbauld,” The Westminster Magazine (June 1776) (Romantic Circles edition of Barbauld’s Poems)
• Barrell, Miss P.
  • The Test of Virtue and Other Poems (1811) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Home Pages and Other Resources
    • Elizabeth Barrett Browning Page
• Anna Maria Bennett, Agnes De-Courci : A Domestic Tale (Chawton House)
• Mary Matilda Betham-Edwards (1776-1852)
  • Elegies and Other Small Poems [1797] (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
  • Selected poems and biographical info (Isle of Lesbos)
• Elizabeth Beverley
  • A Poetical Olio (1819) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
  • The Actress’s Ways and Means (1818?) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
• Sarah Hilham Biller
  • Holkham, the Scenes of My Childhood, and Other Poems (1839) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
• Susanna Blamire (1747-1794)
  • The Poetical Works of Miss Susanna Blamire (1819) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
• Anne Blanchard
  • Midnight Reflections and Other Poems (1822) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
• Margaret Blennerhassett (1788?-1842), The Widow of the Rock; and other poems (Montreal, 1824)
• Frances Brooke (1724-1789)
  • The History of Emily Montague (1769) (canadiana.org)
  • The History of Lady Julia Mandeville (Michigan)
  • Selected Bibliography: Frances Moore Brooke, by Jessica Smith and Paula Backscheider
• Maria Gowen Brooks (1794/5-1845)
  • Zophiel, a poem (1825) (MOA)
• Mary Anne Browne (later Gray, 1812-1844)
  • Mont Blanc: and Other Poems by Mary Anne Browne(1827) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
  • The Coronal; Original Poems, Sacred and Miscellaneous (1833) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
• Rebecca Burlend (1793-1872)
  • A True Picture of Emigration, or 14 Years in the Interior of North America: being a full and partial account of the various difficulties and ultimate success of an English family who emigrated from Barwick-in-Elmet, near Leeds, in the year 1831 (canadiana.org)
• Frances Burney (1752-1840)
  • Web Pages and Other Resources
    • Cecilia study guide (Cathy Decker)
    • Fanny Burney Page with extensive information and bibliographies on her plays and novels (Barbara Darby, DalhousieU)
    • Fanny Burney Page at San Antonio College
    • Fanny Burney bibliography (Mary Mark Ockerbloom)
    • The Burney Society
  • Electronic Texts
    • Camilla (1796) (Celebration of Women Writers)
    • Evelina (1778) (Celebration of Women Writers)
    • Love and Fashion (1799) (British Women Playwrights Around 1800)
    • “Dr. Johnson and Fanny Burney” journals (Virginia)
• Harriet Emma Burton
  • The White-Rose Wreath (1833) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
• Elizabeth Byron (Strutt)
  • Drelincourt and Rodalvi; or, Memoirs of Two Noble Families: A Novel(1807) (Chawton House)

C

• Elizabeth Carter
  • selected poems (Stuart Curran, UPenn)
  • biographical info
• Mary Ann Carter
  • The Deluge, the General Resurrection, and Other Poems (1838) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
• Margaret Chalmers
  • Poems (1813) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
• Harriet Cheney (1795-1889)
  • The Rivals of Acadia: an old story of the new world (1827)
• Mary Clarke Champion de Crespigny (d. 1812)
  • A Monody to the Memory of the Right Honourable the Lord Collingwood(1810) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
• Mary Lady Chudleigh
  • The Ladies Defence (Stuart Curran, UPenn)
• Mary Cockle
  • Elegy on the Death of His Late Majesty George III (1820) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
  • Elegy to the Memory of Her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte of Wales (1817) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
  • Lines Addressed to Lady Byron (1817) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
  • Reply to Lord Byron’s “Fare Thee Well” (1817) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
  • Lines to a Boy Pursuing a Butterfly (1826) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
• Sara Coleridge
  • George Saintsbury, “Sara Coleridge” in the “Lesser Poets” section of the Romanticism volume of the Cambridge History of English and American Literature (1907-21) (Project Bartleby)
• Louisa Collins
  • Diary (1815) — The Diary of a Nova Scotia farm girl (ed. Dale McClare)
• Susannah Maria Cooper
  • The Wife; or, Caroline Herbert (Chawton House)
• Louisa Stuart Costello (1799-1870)
  • Songs of a Stranger (1825) (Nebraska)
  • “Louisa Costello,” by Tamara Holloway (UNebraska)
• Hannah Cowley
  • The Runaway (1776), ed. Elizabeth Fay (British Women Playwrights Around 1800)
• Lady Elizabeth Craven (Margravive of Anspach; 1750-1828)
  • The Georgian Princess (1799) (British Women Playwrights Around 1800)
• Ann Batten Cristall
  • Poetical Sketches (Chris Nagle, Virginia)
  • Introduction to Ann Batten Cristall by Jerome McGann

D

• Charlotte Dacre (nee King, later Byrne, aka “Rosa Matilda”; 1771/2?-1825)
  • Hours of Solitude. Vol. I. (1805) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
  • Hours of Solitude. Vol. II. (1805) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
  • “Wine, I Say! I’ll Drink to Madness!” (Gamer, UPenn)
• Lucretia Maria Davidson (1808-25)
  • Poetical Remains (UMichigan)
• Esther Milnes Day (d.1792)
  • Poems and Fugitive Pieces (1796) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
• Eliza Daye (b. ca. 1734)
  • Poems on Various Subjects (1798) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
• Charlotte Eliza Dixon
  • Bread Cast Upon the Waters (1830) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
• Jane Dunnett
  • Poems on Various Subjects (1818) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)

E

• Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849)
  • Electronic Texts
    • The Absentee
    • Belinda
    • Castle Rackrent: An Hibernian Tale (Celebration of Women Writers)
    • Letters for Literary Ladies (Celebration of Women Writers)
    • Moral Tales for Young People (Project Electra)
    • Murad the Unlucky, and Other Tales (Project Gutenberg)
    • The Parent’s Assistant, or Stories for Children (Project Gutenberg)
  • Critical Commentary
    • “Imprisonment in Castle Rackrent: A Gothic Convention Reflecting 18th Century Women’s Reality” article by Kellie Donovan Wixson (Prometheus Unbound)
    • Emily Lawless, English Men of Letters: Maria Edgeworth” (1905)(Celebration of Women Writers)
• Sarah Egerton (aka Fyge), The Female Advocate (Emory)
• Susan Evance (fl. 1808-1818)
  • Poems by Miss S. Evance, selected from earliest productions to those of the present year (1808) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)

F

• E.M. Forster (Mrs.)
  • The Corinna of England, and a Heroine in the Shade. A Modern Romance(Chawton House)
• Hannah Webster Foster (ca. 1759-1840)
  • The Coquette, or the History of Eliza Wharton. A Novel. (1797) (Celebration of Women Writers)
• Caroline Fry (1787-1846)
  • Serious Poetry (1822) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)

G

• Catherine Gore
  • King O’Neil (1835) (British Women Playwrights Around 1800)
• Anne Macvicar Grant (1755-1838)
  • Home Pages and Other Resources
    • “Anne Grant,“ The Literary Encyclopedia
  • Electronic Texts
    • Eighteen Hundred and Thirteen. A Poem. (1814) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
    • The Highlanders and Other Poems (1808) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
    • Poems on Various Subjects (1803) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
• Mary Anne Browne Gray– see under Mary Anne Browne
• Sarah Green
  • Romance Readers and Romance Writers: A Satirical Novel (Chawton House)

H

• Lady Anne Hamilton (1766-1846)
  • The Epics of the Ton, or The Glories of the Great World. 2nd. ed. (1807) forthcoming
• Elizabeth Hamilton
  • The Cottagers of Glenburnie (1808)(Project Electra)
• Julia Catherine Beckwith Hart (1796-1867)
  • St. Ursula’s Convent, or the Nun of Canada (1824) (canadiana.org)
  • Tonnewonte; or the Adopted Son of America (canadiana.org)
• Jane Harvey
  • The Castle of Tynemouth (1830) (Chawton House)
• Susannah Hawkins (1787-1868)
  • The Poetical Works (1829) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
• Mary Hays (1760-1843)
  • The Mary Hays Page (Eleanor Ty)
• Felicia Hemans (1793-1835)
  • Home Pages and Other Resources
    • Felicia Hemans Page (Celebration of Women Writers)
    • A Chronology for Hemans and Her Circle (Nanora Sweet)
    • Felicia Hemans: A Critical Bibliography (Melissa Jo Sites, U of Maryland)
    • Felicia Hemans Bibliography (Nanora Sweet)
  • Electronic Texts
    • The Domestic Affections and Other Poems (1812) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
    • England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism (1808) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
    • The Forest Sanctuary and Other Poems (1825) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
    • Hymns on the Works of Nature (1827) (Celebration of Women Writers)
    • Poems (1808) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
    • Records of Woman (1828) (Celebration of Women Writers)
    • The Restoration of the Works of Art to Italy (1816)(Celebration of Women Writers)
    • The Sceptic, A Poem (1820) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
    • Wallace’s Invocation to Bruce (1819) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
    • poems from Records of Woman (1828) (Michael Gamer, Upenn)
    • selected poems (Stuart Curran, UPenn)
  • Critical Commentary
    • “Felicia Hemans” from Frederic Rowton’s The Female Poets of Great Britain (1853)(Mary Mark Ockerbloom, CMU)
    • “Prefatory Notice” by WM Rossetti in The Poetical Works of Mrs. Hemans (Mary Mark Ockerbloom, CMU)
    • Nanora Sweet, “Hemans, Heber, and Superstition and Revelation”(1998) (Romantic Circles)
    • George Saintsbury, “Mrs. Hemans; L.E.L.,” from the Romanticism volume of the Cambridge History of English and American Literature (1907-21) (Project Bartleby)
    • “Felicia Hemans,” The Literary Encyclopedia
• Elizabeth Hitchener
  • Enigmas, Historical and Geographical (1839) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
• Anne Home Hunter (1742-1821)
  • Poems by Mrs. John Hunter (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
• Rachel Hunter
  • The Unexpected Legacy. A Novel (Chawton House)

I

• Elizabeth Inchbald
  • Texts and Home Pages
    • Lovers’ Vows (1798) (British Women Playwrights Around 1800)
    • The Massacre: Taken from The French. A Tragedy of Three Acts(composed 1792) (British Women Playwrights Around 1800)
    • Nature and Art (Project Gutenberg)
  • Critical Commentary
    • Danny O’Quinn, “Elizabeth Inchbald’s The Massacre: Tragedy, Violence and the Network of Political Fantasy” (British Women Playwrights Around 1800)

J

• Susannah Willard Johnson (1729-1810)
  • A Narrative of the Captivity of Mrs. Johnson (1796) (canadiana.org)

K

• Dorothy Kilner (aka M. Pelham) (1755-1836)
  • The Life and Perambulations of a Mouse (Gutenberg)

L

• Mary Lamb (with Charles Lamb)
  • Tales from Shakespeare (Project Gutenberg)
• Letitia Elizabeth Landon (“L.E.L.,” 1802-1838)
  • Home Pages and Other Resources
    • Letitia Landon Page (Glenn Himes, Indiana Univ. of Pennsylvania)
  • Electronic Texts
    • L.E.L.’s Verses and The Keepsake for 1829 (a Romantic Circles hypertext edition by Terence Hoagwood, Kathryn Ledbetter and Martin Jacobsen)
    • poems from The Literary Gazette
    • The Troubador (1825) (Glenn Himes)
    • “The Golden Violet,” from The Golden Violet with its Tales of Romance and Chivalry(1827) (Glenn Himes)
    • “The Venetian Bracelet”, from The Venetian Bracelet, the Lost Pleiad, a History of the Lyre, and other Poems (1829) (Glenn Himes)
    • “The Vow of the Peacock,” from The Vow of the Peacock and Other Poems (Glenn Himes)
    • Ethel Churchill (1837) (Glenn Himes)
    • Landon’s short fiction and nonfiction prose (Glenn Himes)
    • The Zenana (Glenn Himes)
    • poems from The Improvisatrice (1824) (Glenn Himes)
  • Critical Commentary
    • George Saintsbury, “Mrs. Hemans; L.E.L.,” in the Romanticism volume of the Cambridge History of English and American Literature (1907-21) (Project Bartleby)
• Harriet Lee
  • The Mysterious Marriage (1798), ed. Barbara Darby (British Women Playwrights Around 1800)
• Sophia Lee (1750-1824)
  • Almeyda Queen of Grenada (1796), ed. Diego Saglia (British Women Playwrights Around 1800)
• Alicia Lefanu (fl. 1812-1826)
  • Rosara’s Chain: or, the Choice of a Life. A Poem. (1812) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
• Charlotte Lennox (1720-1804)
  • Life of Harriot Stuart, Written by Herself (Virginia)
• Isabella Lickbarrow
  • Poetical Effusions (1814) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
• Janet Little (1759-1813)
  • Poetical Works of Janet Little, the Scotch Milkmaid (1792) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)

M

• Catharine Macaulay (1731-1791)
  • Observations on the Reflections of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, on the Revolution in France (1790) (McMaster)
• Anna Maria Mackenzie (Cox Johnson)
  • Monmouth: A Tale, Founded on Historic Facts (1790) (Chawton House)
• Mrs. Martin
  • The Enchantress; or, Where Shall I Find Her? A Tale (Chawton House)
• Mrs. Mathews
  • Simple Facts; or, The History of an Orphan (Chawton House)
• Caroline Maxwell
  • Feudal Tales, being a collection of Romantic Narratives, and Other Poems (1810) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
• Christian Ross Milne (b. 1773)
  • Simple Poems on Simple Subjects (1805) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
• Mary Russell Mitford (1787-1855)
  • Charles the First (1834), ed. Thomas Crochunis (British Women Playwrights Around 1800)
  • Our Village (Gutenberg)
  • Stories by English Authors: The Orient (Gutenberg)
  • selected sonnets (Sonnet Central)
• Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762)
  • Prose and Poetry (U Oregon)
  • selected works (Stuart Curran, UPenn)
  • “Observations on Female Literature in General, Including Some Particulars Relating to Mrs. Montagu and Mrs. Barbauld,” The Westminster Magazine (June 1776) (Romantic Circles edition of Barbauld’s Poems)
• Hannah More (1745-1833)
  • Cheap Repository Tracts and Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education (Project Electra)
  • “The Bas Bleu” and “Sensibility”" (Stuart Curran, UPenn)
• Lady Morgan, Sydney Owenson (1776-1859)
  • Home Pages and Other Resources
    • Lady Morgan Page (Karen Thigpen, Georgia Southern U)
  • Electronic Texts
    • Lay of An Irish Harp (1807) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
    • The Mohawks, a Satirical Poem with Notes (1822) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)

N

• Margaret Clephane Compton Northampton (d. 1830)
  • Irene, a Poem in Six Cantos (1833) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
• Caroline Norton (1808-1877)
  • A Plain Letter to the Lord Chancellor on the Infant Custody Bill (1839)(Indiana- the Victorian Women Writers Project has more selections from Norton)

O

• Amelia Alderson Opie (1769-1853)
  • The Warrior’s Return, and Other Poems (1808) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
  • “Amelia Opie,” The Literary Encyclopedia
• Sydney Owenson — see Lady Morgan

P

• Eliza Parsons, The Castle of Wolfenbach (1793)
• Ida Laura Pfeiffer (1797-1858)
  • Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North (Gutenberg)
• Janetta Philipps, Poems (1811) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
• Mrs. Mary Hopkins Pilkington (1766-1839)
  • Original Poems by Mrs. Pilkington (1811) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
• Hester Lynch (Thrale) Piozzi (1741-1821)
  • Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson (Gutenberg)
• Anne Plumptre
  • The Natural Son (1798) ed. Thomas Crochunis (British Women Playwrights Around 1800)
• Elizabeth Polack
  • Esther (1835), ed. John Franceschina (British Women Playwrights Around 1800)
• Jane Porter (1776-1850)
  • The Chrisitian’s Wedding Ring (canadiana.org)
  • The Scottish Chiefs (Celebration of Women Writers)
  • A Six Week’s Tour in Western Canada (canadiana.org)
• Mary Prince (b. ca. 1788)
  • The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave
• Marianne Jeffrey Prowse (1798-1850)
  • Poems (1830) (Nebraska)
• Elizabeth and Jane Purbeck
  • Honoria Sommerville: A Novel (Chawton House)

R

• Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823)
  • Web Pages and Other Resources
    • Ann Radcliffe Page
    • Reviews of her novels, some by Coleridge (Michael Gamer, U Penn)
    • List of Radcliffe excerpts available on the web (Jack Voller)
  • Electronic Texts
    • The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne (2nd ed., 1794) (Celebration of Women Writers)
    • The Italian; or the Confessional of the Black Penitents(blackmask)
    • The Mysteries of Udolpho (Gutenberg)
    • The Romance of the Forest (blackmask)
    • A Sicilian Romance (blackmask)
    • Poems from Radcliffe’s novels, later collected in 1816 (Michael Gamer, UPenn)
• Mrs. M.A. Reid
  • The Harp of Salem; a Collection of Historical Poems from the Scriptures(1827) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
• Clara Reeve (1729-1807)
  • The Old English Baron (Gutenberg)
  • Preface the 2nd. ed. of The Old English Baron (1778) (Michael Gamer)
• Ellen Robinson
  • Poem, Written on the Death of Rev. Thomas Spencer (1812) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
• Maria Robinson (da. of Mary Robinson)
  • The Wild Wreath (1804)
• Mary Darby Robinson (1758-1800)
  • Home Pages and Other Resources
    • Mary Robinson Page (Mary Mark Ockerbloom)
  • Electronic Texts
    • A Letter to the Women of England, on the Injustice of Mental Subordination (1799). A Hypertext edition by Adriana Craciun, Anne Irmen, Megan Musgrave, Orianne Smith (Romantic Circles)
    • Poems (1791) (complete 2 vol. edition, with subscribers list (Celebration of Women Writers)
    • Memoirs of Mary Robinson (1895 ed.) (Celebration of Women Writers)
    • Sappho and Phaon (1796) (Virginia)
    • Sappho and Phaon (1796) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
    • selected poems (Stuart Curran, Upenn)
  • Critical Commentary
    • Review of Robinson’s Letter to the Women of England from theGentleman’s Magazine (Romantic Circles)
• Mary Rowlandson
  • Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson(Project Gutenberg)
• Susanna Rowson
  • Charlotte Temple (Project Gutenberg)
• Mrs. F. Ryves
  • Cumbrian Legends; or, Tales of Other Times (1812) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)

S

• Janet Schaw
  • Journal of a Lady of Quality, Being the Narrative of a Journey from Scotland to the West Indies, North Carolina, and Portugal, in the years 1774 to 1776 (excerpts) (Starn: Scots Teaching and Research Network, U. Glasgow)
• Elizabeth Scot (1729-1789)
  • Alonzo and Cora, with Other Original Poems, Principally Elegiac (British Women Romantic Poets, UC Davis)
• Jane Margaret Scott
  • Broad Grins; or, Whackham and Windham (1814) (British Women Playwrights Around 1800)
• Anna Seward (1742-1809)
  • Selected works and brief biography (Isle of Lesbos)
  • Eyam and other poems (Elizabeth Fay)
• Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley (1797-1851)
  • Web Pages
    • Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Page (Kim Woodbridge)
    • Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Site (Shanon Lawson, Romantic Circles)
  • Electronic Texts
    • The Last Man (A Romantic Circles hypertext edition by Steven Jones)
    • Frankenstein Home Page online texts and research guide, including films (Georgetown)
    • The Mortal Immortal (A Romantic Circles hypertext edition by Michael Laplace-Sinatra)
    • The Mortal Immortal (Doyle MacDonald)
    • Valperga (bibliomania)
    • letters and journals excerpts (Nelson Hilton, U Georgia)
  • Critical Commentary
    • Reviews of Frankenstein (Shanon Lawson, Romantic Circles)
    • Mary Shelley secondary material available on the web (Jack Voller)
    • Betty T. Bennett, “Radical Imaginings: Mary Shelley’s The Last Man” (Romantic Circles, 1997)
    • Elizabeth Fay, “Mary Shelley and Sibylline Drag” (Romantic Circles, 1997)
    • Nelson Hilton, “Mary Godwin’s Remonstrance” (1995) (chapter from Hilton’s book, Lexis Complexes: Literary Interventions)
    • Lisa Hopkins, “Memory at the End of History: Mary Shelley’s The Last Man” (1997) (Romanticism on the Net)
    • Gary Kelly, “Mary Shelley and Masculine History” (Romantic Circles, 1997)
    • Greg Kucich, “Mary Shelley and the New History” (Romantic Circles, 1997)
    • Morton Paley, “Mary Shelley’s The Last Man: Apocalypse Without Millennium” (1989)
    • Alan Richardson, “The Last Man and the Plague of Empire”(Romantic Circles, 1997)
    • Daniel E. White, “‘The god undeified”: Mary Shelley’s Valperga, Italy, and the Aesthetic of Desire” (1997) (Romanticism on the Net)
    • Kerry Ellen McKeeverr, ‘Writing and Melancholia: Saving the Self in Mary Shelley’s “The Mourner”‘ (1999) (Romanticism on the Net)
• Frances Sheridan
  • The Memoirs of Sidney Bidulph (1761,1767) (Michigan)
• Charlotte Turner Smith (1749-1806)
  • Homepages and other resources
    • Charlotte Smith Page (Brent Raycroft)
    • Sussex Poets manuscript collection (U of Sussex)
    • Portrait of Charlotte Smith
  • Electronic Texts
    • The Banished Man, Vol. I and Vol. II (1794) (Nebraska)
    • Beachy Head: With Other Poems (1807) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
    • Elegiac Sonnets (British Women Romantic Poets, UC Davis)
    • Elegiac Sonnets, Vol. I and Vol. II (Nebraska)
    • The Emigrants (1793) (also in SGML (British Women Poets Project, UC Davis)
    • selected poems (Upenn)
    • The Old Manor House (Celebration of Women Writers)
    • “The Origin of Flattery” (Elizabeth Fay)
    • What is She? (1799) (forthcoming from British Women Playwrights Around 1800)
    • Passages from Smith’s novels: Desmond, The Young Philosopherand Marchmont (B Raycroft)
    • River Arun sonnets from Elegiac Sonnets (B Raycroft)
  • Critical Commentary
    • Brent Raycroft, “Charlotte Smith, William Wordsworth, and the Haunting of the Hazelnut Bower”
    • Romantic period critical commentary on Smith (Brent Raycroft)
    • Beth Ann Neighbors, “”Tranquil seclusion I have vainly sought”: The Frustrated Landscapes of Charlotte Smith and William Wordsworth”
    • Cecilia Fernandez, “The Romanticism of Charlotte Smith”(Prometheus Unplugged)
• Mary Fairfax Somerville (1780-1872)
  • Mechanism of the Heavens
  • Mary Somerville Page (Scottish mathematician)
• Germaine de Staël (1766-1817)
  • Corinne, ou l’Italie (1807): Available online through GALLICA , the server of the Bibliotheque nationale de France (from GALLICA’s main page, you can search by author’s name under Staël, or through the Litterature page)
  • Considerations sur les principaux evenements de la Revolution française(1862 edition): Available through GALLICA, as above.
• Mariana Starke
  • The Sword of Peace (1788), ed. Thomas Crochunis and Michael Eberle Sinatra (British Women Playwrights Around 1800)
• Elizabeth Strickland (1794-1875
  • The Little Prisoner, or Passion and Patience (1828) (canadiana.org)

T

• Jane Taylor (1783-1824)
  • Essays in Rhyme on Morals and Manners (1840) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
  • Little Ann and Other Poems (Celebration of Women Writers)
  • Charlotte Temple (Project Gutenberg)
  • Memoirs, Correspondence and Poetical Remains of Jane Taylor(Celebration of Women Writers)
  • Rachel: A Tale [attributed] (Chawton House)
  • selected poems (Stuart Curran, UPenn)
• Laura Sophia Temple
  • Poems (1805) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
• Mary Tighe (1772-1810)
  • Psyche, or the Legend of Love (1805), ed. Harriet Kramer Linkin
• Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna (ca. 1790-1846)
  • Osric: A Missionary Tale; with The Garden and Other Poems (18–) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)

V

• Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun (1755-1842)
  • Memoirs of Madame Vigee Le Brun, trans. Lytton Strachey (Celebration of Women Writers)

W

• Priscilla Wakefield (1750-1832)
  • An Introduction to the Natural History and Classification of Insects
  • Bridget Hill, “Priscilla Wakefield as a Writer of Children”s Educational Books” (PDF file) (Women’s Writing 4.1, 1997)
• Mrs. Spencer Walker
  • Commemorative Feelings, or Miscellaneous Poems (1812) (British Women Romantic Poets Project, UC Davis)
• Lady Eglantine Wallace
  • The Ton: or, the Follies of Fashion (1788) ed. Daniel O’Quinn (forthcoming from British Women Playwrights Around 1800)
• Phyllis Wheatley (1753-1784)
  • Phyllis Wheatley Page
  • An Elegy (Virginia)
  • Poems (Project Gutenberg)
  • Memoirs and Poems of Phyllis Wheatley (UNC)
• Helen Maria Williams (1762?-1827)
  • Poems on various Subjects (1823) (British Women Romantic Poets, UC Davis)
  • selections from Poems (1786) (Michael Gamer, UPenn)
  • “The Bastille, A Vision” (from Williams’s novel Julia, 1790)(Adriana Craciun, Birkbeck)
• Harriette Wilson (1786-1846)
  • Paris Lions and London Tigers (Chawton House0
• Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
  • Web Pages and other resources
    • Mary Wollstonecraft Page (Harriet Jump)
  • Electronic Texts
    • Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark (Gutenberg)
    • Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman (U Michigan) (another version at Project Gutenberg)
    • Preface to The Female Reader (Rita Raley, UC Santa Barbara)
    • Original Stories from Real Life (Project Electra)
    • A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) (Project Bartleby)
    • A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Internet Wiretap, gopher)
  • Critical Commentary
    • Heather Wallace, “Sophie: Woman’s Education According to Rousseau and Wollstonecraft”
• Dorothy Wordsworth
  • “The Falls of the Clyde”, from her Recollections of a Tour in Scotland, AD 1803 (Scotland HolidayNet)

Y

• Anne Yearsley (1756-1806)
  • “Addressed to Sensibility” (1787) (Stuart Curran, UPenn)
  • “To Indifference” (1787) (Stuart Curran, UPenn)

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Annuals, Anthologies and Gift Books from the Romantic Period

• Web Sites and Texts
  • Anthologies and Miscellanies Site (UC Santa Barbara) table of contents from numerous Romantic period anthologies
  • Early Nineteenth-century British Gift Books and Annuals Web Site (Glenn Dibert-Himes)
  • Forget Me Not (1824-1827): A Hypertextual Archive, by Katherine Harris (CUNY)
  • L.E.L.’s Verses and The Keepsake for 1829 (A Romantic Circles hypertext edition by Terence Hoagwood, Kathryn Ledbetter and Martin Jacobsen)
  • Mary Elizabeth Robinson (da. of Mary Robinson), The Wild Wreath, an 1804 anthology edited by Mary E. Robinson
  • Romantic Circles Anthologies Page (Harriet Kramer Linkin, Laura Mandell, Rita Raley) important resource on modern anthologies
• Critical Commentary
  • Adriana Craciun, Women Writers of the Romantic Period: New Anthologies and Resources (Romanticism on the Net, 1998)
  • Laura Mandell, Canons Die Hard: A Review of the New Romantic Anthologies (Romanticism on the Net, 1997)
  • Susan Wolfson, Anthologizing Romantic-Era Writing For the Commercial Market: An Introduction to a Public Discussion (Romanticism on the Net, 1997)
  • Romantic Canons: A Bibliography (and an Argument) (Laura Mandell)

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Contemporary Responses to Women Writers

• S.T. Coleridge, reviews of Ann Radcliffe’s novels (Michael Gamer, UPenn)
• Dr. John Gregory, A Father’s Legacy to his Daughters (1774) (Romantic Circles edition of Barbauld’s Poems)
• “Observations on Female Literature in General, Including Some Particulars Relating to Mrs. Montagu and Mrs. Barbauld,” The Westminster Magazine (June 1776) (Romantic Circles edition of Barbauld’s Poems)
• Richard Polwhele,The Unsex’d Females (1798) (Virginia)
• William Wordsworth, “Sonnet on Seeing Miss Helen Maria Williams Weep at a Tale of Distress” (Stuart Curran, U Penn)

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Electronic Text Archives with Substantial Material on Women Romantic-Era Writers

• The Bluestocking Archive (Elizabeth Fay, UMass)
• British Poetry 1780-1910: A Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions at Virginia
• British Women Playwrights Around 1800 (Michael Eberle-Sinatra and Tom Crochunis)
• British Women Romantic Poets Project, 1789-1832 (Univ. of California-Davis)
  • Introduction
  • Project Description
  • Project Participants
  • Link to Electronic Texts
  • List of British Women Romantic Poets in the Kohler Collection at UC Davis
  • Access to the Kohler Collection
• Brown University Women Writers Project
• A Celebration of Women Writers a wide range of women writers available online (U Pennsylvania)
• Chawton House Centre for the Study of Early English Women’s Writing (1600-1830)
• Checklist of British Women’s Novels, 1777-1818 (Cathy Decker)
• Clerihews on the Romantic-period women poets (Nan Sweet)
• Coquette Net: 18th Century Women Writers
• The Female Gothic, part of Virginia’s Gothic Materials for Stud
• Godey’s Lady’s Book a 19th century American periodical for women (Vermont)
• Isis: The Written Word (Women Writers of Color)
• Isle of Lesbos: Lesbian Poetry
• The Literary Encyclopedia
• 19th Century American Women Writers Home Page
• Orlando Project: An Integrated History of Women’s Writing in the British Isles (U Alberta)
• Portraits of British Women Writers, 1775-1820 (Cathy Decker)
• Project Electra: Women’s Writing 1780-1830 (Oxford U)
• Romantic Canons: A Bibliography (and an Argument) (Laura Mandell)
• Romantic Circles comprehensive peer-reviewed Romanticism site
• Romanticism Page maintained by Alan Liu at the world-renowned Voice of the Shuttle Humanities Gateway
• Victorian Women Writers Project at Indiana
• Violet Books: Antiquarian Supernatural, Fantasy & Mysterious Literatures (with particular attention to Victorian women writers of the supernatural)
• Voices from the Gaps: Women Artists and Writers of Color
• Women and Eighteenth-Century Literature Bibliography (Martin Maner, Wright State U)
• Women’s Literature Page at U. of North Carolina’s Women’s Studies Page
• Womens Studies Resources Home Page has an excellent Women’s Reading Room, and lots of general feminist resources (U Maryland)

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Cultural and Visual Resources for Women Romantic Era Writers

• The Age of Style, 1660-1800 (Margaret Stein, U Notre Dame)
• Sheffield Hallam University CORVEY project
• British Abolition Movement (Mark Aronowitz and Kevin Heald)
• WORP: Women of the Romantic Period
• Romantic Natural History, 1750-1850 (Ashton Nichols)
• The Image of France: a searchable archive of French prints (George Mckee)
• English Culture 1660-1830 (Cathy Decker) Information on Business, Societies, Periodicals, Customs, Games, Plants, Foods, People, including:
  • Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun Portraits Page
  • Regency Portraits Page
  • Regency Fashions
  • Portraits of British Women Writers, 1775-1820

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Related Web Sites (Including Victorian)

• Centre for Byron Studies (Nottingham) will include resources relating Byron to women writers
• 2006 Fourteenth Annual 18th and 19th Century British Women Writers Conference (Florida)
• Women’s Writing a journal dedicated to women’s writing before 1900
• The Perdita Project: Early Modern Women’s Manuscript Compilations(Nottingham Trent U)
• Victorian Sensationalism Online (Andrew MacTavish, U Alberta)
• Doumic’s George Sand: Some Aspects of Her Life and Writings (Michigan)
• The Bronte Sisters Page (Cecilia Falk)
• Emily Bronte Page
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning Page

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