List of Figures Author Preface Series Preface Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Chronology Introduction: Defining 'Women's Writing'; or, Writing 'The History'; J.M.Labbe PART I: 1750-1830: OVERVIEWS Women and Print Culture, 1750-1830; M.Levy Women's Travel Writing, 1750-1830; K.Turner PART II: 1750-1800: REVOLUTIONS IN FEMALE WRITING Bluestocking Women and the Negotiations of Oral, Manuscript and Print Cultures; B.A.Schellenberg '[T]o strike a little out of a road already so much beaten': Gender, Genre and the Mid-Century Novel; J.Batchelor Anglophone Welsh Women's Poetry 1750-1784: Jane Cave and Anne Penny; S.Prescott The Poem That Ate America: Helen Maria Williams' Ode on the Peace (1783); K.Davies Picturing Benevolence Against the Commercial Cry, 1750-1798: or, Sarah Fielding and the Secret Causes of Romanticism; D.Landry Women Writers and Abolition; D . Coleman Charlotte Smith, Mary Wollstonecraft, and the Romance of Real Life; S.Curran Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson, and the First Year of War with France; H.Guest PART III: 1800-1830: WORLDS OF WRITING The Porter Sisters, Women's Writing, and Historical Fiction; D.Looser Joanna Baillie's Emblematic Theatre; B.Bolton National Internationalism: Women's Writings and European Literature, 1800-1830; D.Saglia Jane Austen's Critical Response to Women's Writing: 'a good spot for fault-finding'; O.Murphy Mary Tighe and the Coterie of British Women Poets in Psyche; H.K.Linkin Influence, Anxiety, and Erasure in Women's Writing: Romantic Becomes Victorian; S.C. Behrendt Bibliography Index