On Saturday 24th July, I gave a talk entitled ‘Taking the Pen in their Hands: Women Writers in the Georgian and Regency Periods’ for the Regency Writers Conference. This is a reference list and a list of primary sources most of which have links to free online public domain versions.
Reference List
Batchelor, Jennie. Women’s Work: Labour, Gender, Authorship, 1750 – 1830. Manchester University Press, 2010.
Clery, E. J. Women’s Gothic: From Clara Reeve to Mary Shelley. Northcote House, 2000.
Duquette, Natasha. Veiled Intent: Dissenting Women’s Aesthetic Approach to Biblical Interpretation. Pickwick Publications, 2016.
Feldman, Paula R. ‘Women Poets and Anonymity in the Romantic Era’. In Authorship, Commerce and the Public. Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
Hill, Bridget. Eighteenth Century Women: An Anthology. Harper Collins, 1984.
Jacobs, Edward. ‘Radcliffe, Genericism and Gender’ in Ann Radcliffe, Romanticism and the Gothic. Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Potter, Franz. Gothic Chapbooks, Bluebooks and Shilling Shockers, 1797 – 1830. University of Wales Press, 2021.
Turner, Cheryl. Women Writers: Living by the Pen. Routledge, 1994.
Primary Texts
Anna Barbauld – Sir Betrand, a Fragment and On Romances – https://web.english.upenn.edu/~mgamer/Etexts/barbauldessays.html
Aphra Behn – The Rover or The Banishe’d Cavaliers – 1677 https://chawtonhouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/The-Rover.pdf
Frances Burney – Evelina – 1778 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6053
Charlotte Dacre – Zofloya, or, The Moor – 1806
Maria Edgeworth – Belinda – 1801 https://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/edgeworth/belinda/belinda.html
Eliza Haywood – Love in Excess, or the Fatal Enquiry – 1720 https://ia800903.us.archive.org/16/items/loveinexcessorfa00hayw/loveinexcessorfa00hayw.pdf
Elizabeth Inchbald – A Simple Story – 1791 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22002
Anne Ker – The Mysterious Count – 1803 https://chawtonhouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Mysterious-Count.pdf
Sophia Lee – The Recess or a Tale of Other Times – 1785 https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book//lookupid?key=olbp45785
Charlotte Lennox – The Female Quixote – 1752 https://www.gutenberg.org/files/50054/50054-h/50054-h.htm
Anne Radcliffe – The Italian – 1796 http://public-library.uk/ebooks/50/37.pdf
Clara Reeve – The Old English Baron – 1778 https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5182/5182-h/5182-h.htm
Mary Robinson – Letter to the Women of England, on the Injustice of Mental Subordination – 1799 http://romantic-circles.org/editions/robinson/index.html
Regina Marie Roche – The Children of the Abbey – 1796
Mary Shelley – ‘The Mortal Immortal’ – 1833 https://romantic-circles.org/editions/mws/immortal/mortal.html
Charlotte Smith
The Old Manor House – 1793 http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/smith/manor/manor.html
Elegiac Sonnets – 1784 http://www.public-library.uk/ebooks/31/88.pdf
Phillis Wheatley – Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral – 1773 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/409
Helen Maria Williams – Letters written in France – 1790-6 https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Williams%2C%20Helen%20Maria%2C%201762%2D1827
Sarah Wilkinson – The Count of Montabino -1809 https://chawtonhouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Castle-of-Montabino.pdf
Mary Wollstonecraft – Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman – 1798 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/134
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