Karen O'Brien is Professor of English at the University of Warwick.

'a well researched intellectual book … scholars of the British Enlightenment of the eighteenth century would do well to study Professor Karen O'Brien's presentation.' Open History

• Introduction: the progress of society; 1. Anglican Whig feminism in England, 1690–1760: self-love, reason and social benevolence; 2. From savage to Scotswoman: the history of femininity; 3. Roman, Gothic and medieval women: the historicisation of womanhood, 1750–c.1804; 4. Catharine Macaulay's Histories of England: liberty, civilisation and the female historian; 5. Good manners and partial civilisation in the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft; 6. The history women and the population men, 1760–1830; Bibliography.

Karen O'Brien is Professor of English at the University of Warwick.

'a well researched intellectual book … scholars of the British Enlightenment of the eighteenth century would do well to study Professor Karen O'Brien's presentation.' Open History

• Introduction: the progress of society; 1. Anglican Whig feminism in England, 1690–1760: self-love, reason and social benevolence; 2. From savage to Scotswoman: the history of femininity; 3. Roman, Gothic and medieval women: the historicisation of womanhood, 1750–c.1804; 4. Catharine Macaulay's Histories of England: liberty, civilisation and the female historian; 5. Good manners and partial civilisation in the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft; 6. The history women and the population men, 1760–1830; Bibliography.

Karen O'Brien is Professor of English at the University of Warwick.

'a well researched intellectual book … scholars of the British Enlightenment of the eighteenth century would do well to study Professor Karen O'Brien's presentation.' Open History

• Introduction: the progress of society; 1. Anglican Whig feminism in England, 1690–1760: self-love, reason and social benevolence; 2. From savage to Scotswoman: the history of femininity; 3. Roman, Gothic and medieval women: the historicisation of womanhood, 1750–c.1804; 4. Catharine Macaulay's Histories of England: liberty, civilisation and the female historian; 5. Good manners and partial civilisation in the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft; 6. The history women and the population men, 1760–1830; Bibliography.