Acknowledgements Introduction Note on the Anthology Select Bibliography Chronology Women's Writing 1. Frances Burney (1752-1840): letters X and XI from Evelina (1778); 'Strictures on Beauty' from Camilla (1796) 2. Catharine Macaulay (1731- 1791): Letters V and VI from The History of Englandfrom the Revolution to the Present Time, in a Series of Letters to a Friend (1778); Closing Address from History of England from the Accession of James I to that of the Brunswick Line (1783); 'No Characteristic Difference in Sex' from Letters on Education (1790) 3. Clara Reeve (1729-1807): Evenings I and VII from the Progress of Romance (1785) 4. Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825): Hymn XI from Hymns in Prose for Children (1781): 'The Rights of Woman' (c. 1792); 'Inscription for an Ice House' (c. 1793); 'To Mr. C[olridge]' (1797); 'True Magicians' (pub.

1826); Eighteen Hundred and Eleven: A Poem' (1812) 5. Charolette Smith (1749-1806): 'The partial Muse has from my earliest hours'; 'To a Nightingale'; 'Written in the Church-Yard at Middleton in Sussex'; 'The Glow Worm'; 'Written in a Tempestuous Night, on the Coast of Sussex'; 'Reflections on Some Drawings of Plants' from Elegiac Sonnets (1784-1797); 'Ode to the Missel Thrush' (1804); 'The Jay in Masquerade' (1807) 6. Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821): Remarks on Such Things Are (1806); From Such Things Are (1787); Remarks on De Monfort (1807); From A Simple Story (1791) 7. Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797): Review of A Simple Story (1791); 'The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed' from A Vindication on the Rights of Woman (1792); Letter Four from Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark (1796) 8. Helen Maria Williams (1762- 1827): Letters IX and XXVI from Letters Written in France (1790); On Madame Roland from Letters from France (1792-1796) 9. Laetitia Matilda Hawkins (1759-1835): Letters I and II from Letters on the Female Mind (1793) 10. Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823): 'Derbyshire and Lancashire' from A Journey Made in the Summer of 1794 (1795); From The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) 11. Hannah More (1745-1833): 'The Riot; or, Half a Loaf is Better than No Bread' (1795); 'The White Slave Trade' (1805) 12.

Mary Robinson (1758-1800): 'January, 1795' (1795); Sappho Discovers her Passion'; Contemns its Power'; Describes the Characteristics of Love'; Invokes Reason'; to the Aeolian Harp'; To Phaon'; 'Laments for Early Misfortunes'; 'Phaon Forsakes Her'; 'Her Address to the Moon'; Her Reflections on the Leucadian Rock BEfore She Perishes' from Sappho and Phaon (1796); from Memoirs of the Late Mrs, Robinson Written by Herself (1801) 13. Ann Yearsley (1753-1806): 'The Captive Linnet' (1796); 'Soliloquy' (1796) 14. Elizabeth Hamilton (1758-1816): From Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah (1796) 15. Priscilla Wakefield (1751-1832): Letter II from An Introduction to Botany, in Series of Familiar Letters (1796); from Reflections on the Present Conditions of the Female Sex (1798) 16. Joanna Baillie (1762-1851): 'Introductory Discourse' from Plays on the Passions (1798); from De Monfort: A Tragedy (1798) 17. Sarah Siddons (1755-1831): 'Remarks on the Character of Lady Macbeth' (pub.1834) 18. Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849): from Castle Rackrent (1800): 'Lady Delacour's History' from Belinda (1801) 19.

Joanna Southcott (1750-1814): From The Strange effects of Faith (1801); From The Strange Effects of Faith, Second Part (1802); Introduction and 'Fourth day's Dispute' from 'A Dispute between the Woman and the Powers of Darkness' (1802) 20. Jane Taylor (1783-1824): Preface; 'Morning'; 'Evening'; 'The Poppy'; 'The Violet'; From the Original Poems, for Infant Minds (1804); 'The Cow and the Ass' (1805); 'The Star' (1806); 'How i.