British Women Writers of the Romantic Period: An Anthology of Their Literary Criticism »

MARY A. WATERS is Associate Professor of English at Wichita State University.

This timely anthology offers a broad selection of critical texts--introductions, prefaces, periodical essays, literary reviews--written by women of the Romantic era. The collection offers fuel for some of the most topical debates in British Romantic period studies including professionalism, nationalism and the literary canon.

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Elizabeth Moody (1737-1814)
Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743-1825)
Charlotte Smith (1749-1806)
Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821)
Mary Robinson (1758-1800)
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
Mary Hays (1760-1843)
Joanna Baillie (1762-1851)
Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823)
Lucy Aikin(1781-1864)
Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan--1783-1859)
Maria Jane Jewsbury (1800-1833)
Leticia Landon (1802-1838)
Harriet Martineau (1802-1876)
Appendix: Featured Periodicals Bibliography Index