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Women Critics 1660–1820
An Anthology
Edited by Folger Collective on Early Women Critics
Published by: Indiana University Press
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- 9780253115003
- Published: December 1995
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". . . the anthology is engaging and informative and should stimulate further research into this fascinating yet neglected area." —English
" . . . most interest are newly recovered materials . . . with several works appearing in English translation for the first time. The excellent introductions and reference notes along with the samplings of writings will pique the interest of students of both literature and history. A good readings text for college students and anyone interested in the development of literature and culture." —Library Journal
This anthology demonstrates women's participation in the construction of criticism as a literary genre. The selected writings, by forty-one of the women who produced criticism between 1660 and 1820, include writers from England, France, Germany, and the United States.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Note on the Text
Madeleine de Scudéry (1607–1701)
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623–1673)
Aphra Behn (1640?–1689)
Anne Lefèvre Dacier (1646–1720)
Jane Barker (1652–1727?)
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661–1720)
Catherine Trotter Cockburn (1679–1749)
Elizabeth Elstob (1683–1756)
Eliza Haywood (1693?–1756)
Elizabeth Cooper (fl. 1735–1740)
Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)
Elizabeth Robinson Montagu (1720–1800)
Louise d'Epinay (1726–1783)
Elizabeth Griffith (1727–1793)
Charlotte Ramsay Lennox *1729?–¡804)
Clara Reeve (1729–1807)
Sophie Guntermann von LaRoche (1730–1807)
Isabelle van Tuyll de Zuylen de Charriére (1740–1805)
Mary Alcock (c. 1742–1798)
Anna Laetitia Aiken Barbauld (1743–1825)
Hannah Parkhouse Cowley (1743–1809)
Hannah More (1745–1833)
Stéphanie-Félicité Ducrest, Corotesse de Genlis (1746–1830)
Anna Seward (1742–1809)
Charlotte Turner Smith (1749–1806)
Judith Sargent Murray (1751–1820)
Frances Burney d'Arblay (1752–1840)
Elizabeth Simpson Inchbald (1753–1821)
Phillis Wheatley (1753?–1784)
Hannah Webster Foster (1758–1840)
Elizabeth Hamilton (1758–1816)
Mary Robinson (1758–1800)
Mary Woolstonecraft (1759–1797)
Mary Hays (1760–1843)
Joanna Baillie (1762–1851)
Ann Ward Radcliffe (1764–1823)
Dorothea Mendelssohn Veit Schlegel (1764–1839)
Anne-Louise Germaine Necker de Staël (1766–1817)
Maria Edgeworth (1768–1849)
Jane Austen (1775–1817)
Rachel Mordecai Lazarus (1788–1838)
Biographical and Bibliographical Sources
Members of the Folger Collective on Early Women Critics
Index
VIRGINIA WALCOTT BEAUCHAMP, retired Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland, has written widely on English Renaissance writers and on women's diaries and letters.
MATTHEW BRAY has written on Charlotte Smith, Helen Maria Williams and the ideology of Romanticism. He is currently Director of Product Engineering at NISC, Baltimore, a publisher of CD-ROM bibliographic databases.
SUSAN GREEN is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma, where she is an editor of Genre. She has published articles on early women critics.
SUSAN SNIADER LANSER is Professor of Comparative Literature and English at the University of Maryland.
KATHERINE LARSEN has written on early women novelists and is currently completing a critical edition of John Dunton's Voyage Round the World.
JUDITH PASCOE is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Iowa.
KATHARINE M. ROGERS, Professor Emerita at the City University of New York, is author of The Troublesome Helpmate, Feminism in Eighteenth-Century England, and Frances Burney: The World of "Female Difficulties."
RUTH SALVAGGIO, Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of New Mexico, is the author of Dryden's Dualities and Enlightened Absence: Neoclassical Configurations of the Feminine.
AMY COHEN SIMOWITZ is author of Theory of Art in the Encyclopedie.
TARA GHOSHAL WALLACE is Associate Professor of English at George Washington University. She is the editor of Frances Burney's A Busy Day and the author of Jane Austen and Narrative Authority.