Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Public women: the Restoration to the death of Aphra Behn, 1660–1689
- 2 Partisans of virtue and religion, 1689–1702
- 3 Politics, gallantry, and ladies in the reign of Queen Anne, 1702–1714
- 4 Battle joined, 1715–1737
- 5 Women as members of the literary family, 1737–1756
- 6 Bluestockings and sentimental writers, 1756–1776
- 7 Romance and comedy, 1777–1789
- Notes
- Recommended modern editions
- Select bibliography
- Index
4 - Battle joined, 1715–1737
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 November 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Public women: the Restoration to the death of Aphra Behn, 1660–1689
- 2 Partisans of virtue and religion, 1689–1702
- 3 Politics, gallantry, and ladies in the reign of Queen Anne, 1702–1714
- 4 Battle joined, 1715–1737
- 5 Women as members of the literary family, 1737–1756
- 6 Bluestockings and sentimental writers, 1756–1776
- 7 Romance and comedy, 1777–1789
- Notes
- Recommended modern editions
- Select bibliography
- Index
Summary
TEXTS
1715 Elizabeth Elstob. The Rudiments of Grammar for the English-Saxon Tongue
1715 Susanna Centlivre. The Gotham Election, a Farce
1716 [Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and others]. Court Poems … as they were found in a Pocket-Book taken up in Westminster-Hall, the last day of the Lord Winton's Tryal
1716 Mary Davys. The Northern Heiress, or the Humours of York
1716–18 (written). (published 1763) Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M—y W—y M—e: Written during her Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa
1716–18 (written). (published 1725) Mary Davys. The Self-Rival
1719–20 Eliza Haywood. Love in Excess; or the Fatal Inquiry, a Novel
1722 Penelope Aubin. The Noble Slaves
1722 Elizabeth Thomas. Miscellany Poems on Several Subjects
1723 (written). Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. “Miss Cooper to—”
1724 (written). Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. “Epistle from Mrs. Y[onge] to her Husband”
1727 Mary Davys. The Acccomplish'd Rake: or, Modern Fine Gentleman. Being an Exact Description of the Conduct and Behaviour of a Person of Distinction
1727 Penelope Aubin. Trans. History of Genghizcan the Great, First Emperor of the Antient Moguls and Tartars…
1728, 1731, 1732. Elizabeth Rowe. Friendship in Death, In Twenty Letters from the Dead to the Living. To which are added, Thoughts on Death. Translated from the Moral Essays of the Messieurs du Port Royal
1733 Mary Chandler. The Description of Bath
1735 Mary Barber. Poems on Several Occasions
1736 Elizabeth Rowe. The History of Joseph. A Poem. In Eight Books (revised version in 10 books, published 1739)
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- A Literary History of Women's Writing in Britain, 1660–1789 , pp. 166 - 227Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006