Routledge Companion to Romantic Women Writers

Ann R. Hawkins, assistant provost for graduate education and research at the State University of New York’s System Administration, specializes in book history and textual criticism of the transatlantic nineteenth century. She has published scholarly editions of Romantic Women Writers Reviewed, 1788–1792 (9 vols) and of three Silver Fork novels; edited Teaching Bibliography, Book History, and Textual Criticism; and co‐edited Women Writers and the Artifacts of Celebrity, and Playing Games in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America. She serves as series co‐editor for SUNY Press’s History of Books, Publishing, and the Book Trades. As Rachael Miles, she writes award‐winning historical romance.Catherine S. Blackwell researches long-nineteenth-century transatlantic literature, material culture, and legal artifacts, and works as an editorial coordinator for SUNY Press. She has published a scholarly edition of the Anna Seward–Joseph Weston debate from The Gentleman’s Magazine and on British and American women writers, including Louisa May Alcott. In addition to editing the Gentleman’s Magazine chapters in Romantic Women Writers Reviewed, she is associate editor of the digital Victorian Women Writers Reviewed project and co-editor of the 2021 Playing Games in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America. A former paralegal, she is currently researching criminal-conversation lawsuits and related publications.E. Leigh Bonds, associate professor and digital humanities librarian at The Ohio State University, holds a PhD with specialization in nineteenth-century British literature and book history. In addition to co-editing this volume, she edited the Town and Country Magazine chapters in Romantic Women Writers Reviewed, published articles on Mary Robinson’s censure of gaming and periodical puffing of Walsingham, and co-curated exhibitions of Romantic works. Her role at Ohio State involves consultations, collaborations, and instruction to support digital humanities approaches in research and teaching, and leading the campus digital humanities community. Her current research projects focus on Robinson’s literary celebrity, pseudonymous signatures, and publishing history.

• IntroductionPart I. Multi-Author Surveys Chapter 1: Children and Children’s LiteratureDonelle RuweChapter 2: Women and ChristianityPatricia Michaelson and Sarah E. MooreChapter 3: Jewish Women WritersRobin Hammerman Chapter 4: Orientalism and British Women WritersJoey S. KimChapter 5: British Women and Provincial PoetryStephen BehrendtChapter 6: Slavery and AbolitionSrividhya SwaminathanPart 2: Author EssaysChapter 7: Lucy Aikin (1781-1864) Luke A. Iantorno and Catherine S. BlackwellChapter 8: Jane Austen (1775-1817) Katie HalseyChapter 9: Joanna Baillie (1762-1851)Ken A. BugajskiChapter 10: Anne Bannerman (c. 1780-1829)Matthew HeilmanChapter 11: Anna Laetitia Barbauld née Aikin (1743–1825)Kelly BattlesChapter 12: Lady Anne Barnard née Lindsay (1750-1825)Gerald Groenewald and Jessica MurrayChapter 13: Charlotte Brooke (c. 1740-1793) Leith Davis Chapter 14: Mary Brunton (1778-1819)Maxine Branagh-MiscampbellChapter 15: Frances Burney (1752–1840)Lorna ClarkChapter 16: Sarah Harriet Burney (1772–1844)Lorna J. ClarkChapter 17: Jane Cave Winscom (1752 - 1812)Kathleen Béres RogersChapter 18: Hannah Cowley (1743-1809) Donna Waldron Chapter 19: Ann Batten Cristall (c. 1769–1848) Alec Jordan Chapter 20:Charlotte Dacre (ca. 1772-1825) Jeffrey Cass Chapter 21: Catherine Ann Dorset née Turner (circa 1750-after 1816) Michelle Beissel Heath Chapter 22: Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849) Deborah Weiss Chapter 23: Ellenor Fenn née Frere (1744–1813) Taylor WalleChapter 24: Eliza Fenwick née Jaco (1766-1840) Jonas Cope Chapter 25: Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1782-1854) Andrew Monnickendam Chapter 26: Anne Macvicar Grant (1755-1838) Pam Perkins Chapter 27: Elizabeth Hamilton (1756-1816) Angela Rehbein Chapter 28: Felicia Dorothea Hemans née Browne (1793-1835)Nanora SweetChapter 29: Elizabeth Inchbald (née Simpson) (1753-1821) Ben P. Robertson Chapter 30: Lady Caroline Lamb née Ponsonby (1785-1828) Leigh Wetherall Dickson Chapter 31: Mary Lamb (1764 – 1847) Liora Selinger Chapter 32: Catharine Macaulay (1731-91) Megan Cole Chapter 33:Elizabeth Allen Meeke (1761-1826?)Miles A. KimballChapter 34: Mary Russell Mitford (1787–1855) Elisa Beshero-Bondar Chapter 35: Hannah More (1745-1833) Kerri Andrews Chapter 36: Amelia Alderson Opie (1769-1853) Sarah R. Morrison Chapter 37: Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan (1783?-1859) Julie Donovan Chapter 38: Hester Lynch Piozzi (1741-1821) Lisa Berglund Chapter 39: Anna Maria Porter (1778–1832) Thomas McLean Chapter 40:Jane Porter (1775–1850) Thomas McLean Chapter 41: Ann Radcliffe née Ward (1764-1823) Courtney Yule and Catherine S. Blackwell Chapter 42: Mary Robinson née Darby (1757–1800) E. Leigh Bonds Chapter 43: Anna Seward (1742–1809) Catherine S. BlackwellChapter 44: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, née Godwin (1797–1851) Nora Crook and Lisa VargoChapter 45: Mary Martha Sherwood (1775–1851) Megan A. Norcia and Kelly Yessin Chapter 46: Charlotte Turner Smith (1749-1806) Shannon Elayne Ann Weston and Joseph MorrisseyChapter 47: Joanna Southcott (or Southcote) (1750–1814) Erin M. Goss Chapter 48: Mary Tighe (1772-1810) Harriet Kramer Linkin Chapter 49: Jane West (1758-1852) Angela Rehbein and Megan Woodworth with Carlene N. Bermann Chapter 50: Helen Maria Williams (1759-1827) Luke A. Iantorno and Catherine S. Blackwell Chapter 51: Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) Enit Karafili Steiner and Carlene Bermann Chapter 52: Dorothy Wordsworth (1771・1855) Jessica Fay Chapter 53: Ann Yearsley [née Cromartie] (1753-1806) Kerri Andrews