1st Edition

Bluestocking Feminism, Volume 4 Writings of the Bluestocking Circle, 1738-94

    364 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 4: Anna Seward (1-10): Introduction; Love Elegies and Epistles; Elegy - Evander to Emillia; Epistle - Evander to Emillia; Elegy - Emillia Embroidering — and Jealous; Epistle - Evander to Emillia; Elegy - Emillia to Evander — in Renewed Jealousy; Epistle - Evander to Emillia; Elegy - Evander to Emillia; Epistle - Evander to Emillia; Elegy - Evander to Emillia; Epistle - Evander to Emillia; Elegy - Evander to Emillia; Epistle - Evander to Emillia; Elegy - Evander to Emillia; Elegy - Evander to Emillia; Epistle - Evander to Emillia; Lichfield, An Elegy; Verses Written in Dr Darwin’s Botanic Garden; Invocation of the Comic Muse; Elegy on Captain Cook; Ode to the Sun; Verses: Inviting Mrs C-----to Tea on a public Fast-day, During the American War; On the Future Existence of Brutes; Monody on Major André; Epistle to Cornelia; To the Memory of Lady Miller; Address to Woman. From the Italian; Verses to the Rev. William Mason; Louisa, A Poetical Novel in Four Epistles; Louisa to Emma, Her Friend in the East-Indies; Eugenio to Emma, On Her Return From the East-Indies; Louisa to Emma, Written the Day After She Had Received; From Her Eugenio’s Exculpating Letter; Louisa to Emma; Daphne’s Coyness Accounted For; Colebrook Dale; Ode on General Eliott’s Return from Gibraltar, in; The Lake; Or, Modem Improvement in Landscape; A Warning Exhortation; Philippic on a Modern Epic; Llangollen Vale, Inscribed to the Right Honourable Lady; Eleanor Butler, and Miss Ponsonby; Inscriptions, Each Written on a Card Inclosed in a; Letter-Case, Netted by the Author; Inscriptions, Sealed up and Inclosed in Net Letter-cases; Presented to the Charitable Repository at Lichfield; Selected Sonnets: Admontion to Rosilda; Extracts from Anna Seward’s Literary Correspondence; Extracts from The Letters of Anna Seward Written Between the Years 1 and 10; Extracts from Anna Seward’s Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Darwin; Chiefly During His Residence at Lichfield; Notes

    Biography

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