Description: List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction READING WOMEN'S TEXTS Mary Robinson's Lyrical Tales in Context Becoming an Author: Mary Robinson's Memoirs and the Origins of the Woman Artist's Autobiography "A name more dear": Daughters, Fathers, and Desire in A Simple Story, The False Friend, and Mathilda Romantic Aspirations, Restricted Possibilities: The Novels of Charlotte Smith GENDER AND THE CULTURAL MATRIX Configurations of Feminine Reform: The Woman Writer and the Tradition of Dissent The Way Above the World: Religion and Gender in Welsh and Anglo-Welsh Women's Writing, 1780-1830 "Domestic Affections" and "the spear of Minerva": Felicia Hemans and the Dilemma of Gender128 Lost Needles, Tangled Threads: Stitchery, Domesticity, and the Artistic Enterprise in Barbauld, Edgeworth, Taylor, and Lamb RE-VISIONING ROMANTIC AESTHETICS Female Botanists and the Poetry of Charlotte Smith Literary History, Romanticism, and Felicia Hemans The Politics of Fancy in the Age of Sensibility The Romantic Scene(s) of Writing English Romantic Women Writers and Theatre Theory: Joanna Baillie's Prefaces to the Plays on the Passions Bibliography Contributors Index

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