1st Edition

The Routledge Companion to Romantic Women Writers

608 Pages
by Routledge

608 Pages
by Routledge

608 Pages
by Routledge

The Routledge Companion to Romantic Women Writers overviews critical reception for Romantic women writers from their earliest periodical reviews through the most current scholarship and directs users to avenues of future research. It is divided into two parts.The first section offers topical discussions on the status of provincial poets, on women’s engagement in children’s literature, the... Read more
 

Introduction

Part I. Multi-Author Surveys

Chapter 1:

Children and Children’s Literature

Donelle Ruwe

 

Chapter 2:

Women and Christianity

Patricia Michaelson and Sarah E. Moore

 

Chapter 3:

Jewish Women Writers

Robin Hammerman

 

Chapter 4:

Orientalism and British Women Writers

Joey S. Kim

 

Chapter 5:

British Women and Provincial Poetry

Stephen Behrendt

 

Chapter 6:

Slavery and Abolition

Srividhya Swaminathan

 

Part 2: Author Essays

Chapter 7:

Lucy Aikin (1781-1864)

Luke A. Iantorno and Catherine S. Blackwell

 

Chapter 8:

Jane Austen (1775-1817)

Katie Halsey

 

Chapter 9:

Joanna Baillie (1762-1851)

Ken A. Bugajski

 

Chapter 10:

Anne Bannerman (c. 1780-1829)

Matthew Heilman

 

Chapter 11:

Anna Laetitia Barbauld née Aikin (1743–1825)

Kelly Battles

 

Chapter 12:

Lady Anne Barnard née Lindsay (1750-1825)

Gerald Groenewald and Jessica Murray

 

Chapter 13:

Charlotte Brooke (c. 1740-1793)

Leith Davis

 

Chapter 14:

Mary Brunton (1778-1819)

Maxine Branagh-Miscampbell

 

Chapter 15:

Frances Burney (1752–1840)

Lorna Clark

 

Chapter 16:

Sarah Harriet Burney (1772–1844)

Lorna J. Clark

 

Chapter 17:

Jane Cave Winscom (1752 - 1812)

Kathleen Béres Rogers

 

Chapter 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 Walle

 

Chapter 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 Sweet

 

Chapter 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. Kimball

 

Chapter 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. Blackwell

 

Chapter 44:

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, née Godwin (1797–1851) 

Nora Crook and Lisa Vargo

 

Chapter 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 Morrissey

 

Chapter 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 

Biography

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.