List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionREADING WOMEN'S TEXTSMary Robinson's Lyrical Tales in ContextBecoming an Author: Mary Robinson's Memoirs and the Origins of the Woman Artist's Autobiography"A name more dear": Daughters, Fathers, and Desire in A Simple Story, The False Friend, and MathildaRomantic Aspirations, Restricted Possibilities: The Novels of Charlotte SmithGENDER AND THE CULTURAL MATRIXConfigurations of Feminine Reform: The Woman Writer and the Tradition of DissentThe Way Above the World: Religion and Gender in Welsh and Anglo-Welsh Women's Writing, 1780-1830"Domestic Affections" and "the spear of Minerva": Felicia Hemans and the Dilemma of Gender128Lost Needles, Tangled Threads: Stitchery, Domesticity, and the Artistic Enterprise in Barbauld, Edgeworth, Taylor, and LambRE-VISIONING ROMANTIC AESTHETICSFemale Botanists and the Poetry of Charlotte SmithLiterary History, Romanticism, and Felicia HemansThe Politics of Fancy in the Age of SensibilityThe Romantic Scene(s) of WritingEnglish Romantic Women Writers and Theatre Theory: Joanna Baillie's Prefaces to the Plays on the PassionsBibliographyContributorsIndex
