The "Other" 18th Century: English Women of Letters, 1660-1800

by Uphaus, Robert W.; Foster, Gretchen M.

• ISBN13: 9780870134388
• ISBN10: 0870134388
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-02-01
• Publisher: Michigan State Univ Pr

Summary

The "Other" Eighteenth Century reclaims the tradition of women's writing in England during the period 1660-1800 and restores this tradition to its rightful place in the present-day canon of eighteenth-century literature. By including complete poems, plays, essays, letters, and chapters that represent the spectrum of literary modes (other than short fiction and the novel) employed by women of letters, this anthology provides a sustained in-depth look at the range of women's writing from the late seventeenth until the end of the eighteenth century. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	1	(16)
Margaret Fell (1614-1702)
Women's Speaking Justified	17	(6)
Judith Drake (fl. 1696)
From An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex	23	(10)
Mary Astell (1666-1731)
Appendix to Some Reflections on Marriage	33	(18)
Aphra Behn (1640-1689)	51	(100)
The Invitation	52	(1)
The Disappointment	53	(4)
To Alexis in Answer to his Poem against Fruition	57	(2)
Song	59	(1)
The Willing Mistriss	59	(1)
To Lysander	60	(2)
The Lucky Chance	62	(77)
Sarah Fyge Egerton (1670-1723)
The Liberty	139	(2)
The Emulation	141	(1)
To Philaster	142	(1)
To Orabella, marry 'd to an old Man	143	(1)
To Alexis, on his absence	144	(1)
Lady Mary Chudleigh (1656-1710)
To The Ladies	145	(1)
To Clorissa	146	(2)
The Elevation	148	(3)
Katherine Philips (1631-1664)	151	(14)
Upon the double Murther of King Charles I	152	(1)
Friendship's Mystery: To my dearest Lucasia	153	(1)
A retir'd Friendship: To Ardelia	154	(1)
Content: To My dearest Lucasia	155	(3)
Wiston Vault	158	(1)
The World	158	(3)
The Soul	161	(4)
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661-1720)	165	(16)
The Preface	166	(4)
The Introduction	170	(2)
The Apology	172	(1)
Ardelia to Melancholy	173	(1)
On Myself	174	(1)
Clarinda's Indifference at Parting with Her Beauty	175	(1)
The Unequal Fetters	176	(1)
To the Nightingale	176	(1)
A Letter to Dafnis April: 2D 1685	177	(1)
Life's Progress	178	(1)
A Nocturnal Reverie	179	(2)
Lady Rachel Russell (1636-1723)	181	(32)
From Letters of Lady Rachel Russell	182	(17)
Elizabeth Tollet (1694-1754)
In Memory of the Countess of Winchelsea	199	(2)
On a Death's Head	201	(1)
Untitled	201	(1)
The Monument	202	(1)
Elizabeth Singer Rowe (1674-1737)
The Vision	203	(2)
Hymn V	205	(1)
A Description of Hell in Imitation of Milton	206	(2)
Despair	208	(1)
On the Anniversary Return of the Day on which Mr. Rowe Died	209	(1)
Canticle I.vii	210	(1)
Canticle II.viii, ix	211	(1)
The Submission	211	(2)
Elizabeth Carter (1717-1806)	213	(34)
On the Death of Mrs. Rowe	214	(1)
To	215	(2)
On a Watch [1]	217	(1)
To	218	(2)
On a Watch [2]	220	(1)
[Untitled]	221	(2)
Catherine Talbot (1721-1770)
Allegory 1	223	(3)
Allegory 2	226	(3)
[Untitled]	229	(2)
Elegy	231	(1)
Moral Stanzas	232	(3)
Jane Collier (1709-1754?)
From An Essay on the Art of Tormenting	235	(12)
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762)	247	(36)
To the Imitator of the First Satire of the Second Book of Horace	248	(3)
An Epistle from Pope to Lord Bolingbroke	251	(3)
The Lover: A Ballad	254	(1)
To the Countess of	255	(6)
Concerning Monsieur de la Rochefoucault's Maxim - ``That Marriage is Sometimes Convenient, but Never Delightful''	261	(8)
Lady Sarah Pennington (1725?-1783)
From An Unfortunate Mother's Advice to Her Absent Daughters	269	(14)
Hannah Cowley (1743-1809)	283	(60)
The Belle's Stratagem	284	(59)
Joanna Baille (1762-1851)	343	(16)
Introductory Discourse	344	(15)
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)	359	(26)
Vindication of the Rights of Woman	360	(10)
Letters Written During A Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark	370	(12)
Hints	382	(3)
Hannah More (1745-1833)	385	(16)
On the danger of an ill-directed Sensibility	386	(15)
Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849)	401	(24)
On Sympathy and Sensibility	402	(10)
An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification	412	(13)
Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825)	425	(26)
Against Inconsistency in our Expectations	426	(6)
On Prejudice	432	(9)
Song I	441	(1)
Verses on Mrs. Rowe	442	(1)
An Address to the Diety	443	(3)
To Mr. Barbauld	446	(1)
Washing-Day	447	(2)
Octogenary Reflections	449	(2)
Appendix: Selected Illustrations	451