The 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.

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