Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Illustration IX
4. Acknowledgment XI
5. Introduction 1
6. Reading Women's Texts
7. Mary Robinson's Lyrical Tales in Context 17
8. Becoming an Author: Mary Robinson's Memoirs and the Origins of the Woman Artist's Autobiography 36
9. "A name more dear": Daughters, Fathers, and Desire in A Simple Story, The False Friend, and Mathilda 51
10. Romantic Aspirations, Restricted Possibilities: The Novels of Charlotte Smith 72
11. Gender and the Cultural Matrix
12. Configurations of Feminine Reform: The Woman Writer and the Tradition of Dissent 91
13. The Way Above the World: Religion and Gender in Welsh and Anglo-Welsh Women's Writing, 1780-1830 111
14. "Domestic Affections" and "the spear of Minerva": Felicia Hemans and the Dilemma of Gender 128
15. Lost Needles, Tangled Threads: Stitchery, Domesticity, and the Artistic Enterprise in Barbauld, Edgeworth, Taylor, and Lamb 167
16. Re-Visioning Romantic Aesthetics
17. Female Botanists and the Poetry of Charlotte Smith 193
18. Literary History, Romanticism, and Felicia Hemans 210
19. The Politics of Fancy in the Age of Sensibility 228
20. The Romantic Scene (s) of Writing 256
21. English Romantic Women Writers and Theatre Theory: Joanna Baillie's Prefaces to the Plays on the Passions 274
22. Bibliography 297
23. Contributors 317
24. Index 321