1st Edition

Bluestocking Feminism, Volume 2 Writings of the Bluestocking Circle, 1738-92

    500 Pages
    by Routledge

    Feminist scholarship and criticism has retrieved the Bluestocking women from their marginal position in 18th-century literature. This work collects the principal writings of these women, together with a selection of their letters. Each volume is annotated and all texts are edited and reset.

    Volume 2 Elizabeth Carter Introduction Elizabeth Carter (1717-1806); The Works of Epictectus; Selected Poems: To Miss Blomer, Canterbury; A Riddle. [1734]; In Diem Natalem; Anacreon. Ode XXX; A Riddle. [1736]; Fortune; While clear the Night, and ev’ry Thought serene; On the Death of Mrs Rowe. [1737]; On the Death of Mrs Rowe. [1739]; Ode to Melancholy; A Dialogue; To Miss Lynch; To Miss Lynch. Occasioned by an Ode written by Mrs Philips; To Dr Walwyn. On His Design of Cutting Down a Shady Walk; Ode to Wisdom 359To Miss Hall; To Miss Burton. On a Watch; Horace, Book I, Ode XV. The Prophecy of Nereus; Canzone del Abate Metastasio. Translated; Epitaph for Samuel Richardson; To the Rev. Dr Carter; To Miss Margaret Carter; To Mrs Montagu. (‘Where are those hours, on rosy pinions borne’); To the Earl of Bath; To Mrs Montagu. (‘No more, my friend, pursue a distant theme’); To Viscountess Cremorne; Selected Letters: To Thomas Birch, 22 August 1738; To Edward Cave, 31 July 1739; To Edward Cave, 1 December 1739; To Catherine Talbot, 1 January 1743; To Catherine Talbot, 24 May 1744; To Catherine Talbot, 5 July 1746; To Catherine Talbot, 20 January 1748; To Catherine Talbot, 16 April 1754; To Catherine Talbot, 1755; To Elizabeth Montagu, 10 November 1761;To Catherine Talbot, 22 August 1763; To Elizabeth Montagu, 21 August 1767; To Elizabeth Montagu, 19 July, 1768; To Elizabeth Montagu, 17 June, 1769; To Elizabeth Vesey, 15 January 1770; To Henrietta Pulteney, 27 June 1788; To Matthew Montagu, 28 August 1800; Miscellaneous Prose: The Rambler, number XLIV; The Rambler, number C; Proposals for Printing by Subscription a Most Useful and Curious Work, Entitled the Whole Art and Mystery of Punning; Mrs Macaulay, Guicciardini and Caesar; On Johnson’s Shakspeare; From Answers to Objections Concerning the Christian Religion; Letter VI; A Morning Prayer; Notes

    Biography

    Gary Kelly, Elizabeth Eger, Judith Hawley, Jennifer Kelly, Rhoda Zuk