Life-Writings by British Women, 1660-1815

by Barros, Carolyn A.; Smith, Johanna M.

• ISBN13: 9781555534318
• ISBN10: 1555534317
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-05-01
• Publisher: Northeastern Univ Pr

Summary

A wide array of documents, many of which have been unavailable since their original publication, is included: memoirs of individual and family life, travel narratives, letters, appeals for funds, testimonies of spiritual conversion, and scandalous memoirs. The writers represented here range from ladies to servants, from spinsters to courtesans, from actresses to poets, from wronged wives to wives of men engaged in British colonization. A comprehensive introduction by the editors explores the material conditions of women's lives in Restoration and eighteenth-century Britain and critically examines the genre of autobiography. Each selection is preceded by an explanatory headnote that places the document in its historical, cultural, and social contexts.

Author Biography

Carolyn A. Barros is Dean of the Honors College and Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas, Arlington. Johanna M. Smith is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas, Arlington.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix
Editors' Note	x
Introduction: Women's Lives and life-Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century	3	(32)
Johanna M. Smith
Carolyn A. Barros
Memories of Lady Fanshawe, Wife of the Right Hon. Sir Richard Fanshawe	35	(12)
Ann
Lady Fanshawe
Some Account of Circumstances in the life of Mary Pennington	47	(11)
Mary Pennington
A Relation of Margaret Fell	58	(12)
Margaret Fell Fox
The life of that Faithful Servant of Christ, Jane Hoskens	70	(11)
Jane Hoskens
The Singular Experience and great Sufferings of Mrs. Agnes Beaumont	81	(13)
Agnes Beaumont
Memoirs of Mrs. Mary Churchman relating to her Conversion	94	(8)
Mary Churchman
The Life and adventures of Mrs. Christian Davies, Commonly called Mother Ross	102	(14)
Christian Davies
Miss Marry Blandy's own Account of the Affair between her and Mr. Cranstoun	116	(11)
Mary Blandy
A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke	127	(11)
Charlotte Charke
The Memoirs of Mrs. Catherine Jemmat	138	(10)
Catherine Jemmat
Letters of the Right Honorable Lady M---y W---y M---e	148	(28)
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Letters From the Island of Teneriffe, Brazil, the Cape of Good Hope, and the East Indies	176	(10)
Jemima Kindersley
Original Letters from India	186	(17)
Eliza Fay
Facts. The Female Spy	203	(10)
Mary Tonkin
An Apology for the Life of George Anne Bellamy	213	(16)
George Anne Bellamy
Genuine Memories of Jane Elizabeth Moore	229	(10)
Jane Elizabeth Moore
Letters from the Right Honorable Lady Craven, to His Serene Highness the Margrave of Anspach	239	(13)
Lady Elisabeth Craven
Mrs. Hill's Apology	252	(12)
Phillippina Burton Hill
Authentic and interesting Memoirs of Miss Ann Sheldon	264	(11)
Ann Sheldon
An Appeal to the Public, on the conduct of Mrs. Gooch	275	(9)
Elizabeth Gooch
The Life of Mrs. Robertson, (A Tale of Truth as well as of Sorrow.)	284	(8)
Hannah Robertson
Narrative of Two Voyages to the River Sierra Leone	292	(7)
Anna Maria Falconbridge
The Confession of Countess of Strathmore	299	(12)
Mary Eleanor Bowes
The Memoirs of Mrs. Coglan	311	(11)
Margaret Coghlan
A Journey made in the Summer of 1794, through Holland and The Western Frontier of Germany	322	(12)
Ann Radcliffe
A Voyage round the World, in the Gorgon man of war	334	(10)
Mary Ann Parker
Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark	344	(25)
Mary Wollstonecraft
Memoirs of the Late Mrs. Robinson	369	(12)
Mary Robinson
A Journal of a Voyage to, and Residence in, the Island of Jamaica	381	(13)
Maria
Lady Nugent
``To the Reader''	394	(9)
Mary R. Stockdale
Bibliography	403