Bluestocking Feminism, Volume 3: Writings of the Bluestocking Circle, 1738-93

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

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781040249710
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/28/2024
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	430
File size:	529 KB

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

Volume 3: Catherine Talbot and Hester (Mulso) Chapone: Catherine Talbot (1721-70); Introduction; Athenian Letters; Cleander to Orsames [XCV]; ' to Cleander [CLI]; Sappho to Cleander [CLXXVT]; Sappho to Cleander [CLXXVII]; Essay: by “Sunday”; Reflections on the Seven Days of the Week; Sunday-Saturday; Essays (selected) I, III, V, VIII, XI, XIV, V, XVIII, XIX, XX, XXII; Dialogues (selected); I, II, V; Pastorals (selected) III; A Fairy Tale; Imitations of Ossian I-III; Allegories (selected); Selected Poems; On Reading the Love Elegies; Stanzas: To the Memory of Mrs. Seeker; Song [Now Summers gaudy charms are gone]; Song [In vain fond Tyrant]; Sonnet - In ye Manner of Petrarch; Another; La Disperata; An irregular Stanza; Song [Fear not proud reason]; Selected Letters: Letter to Jemima Campbell; Letter to her Cousin, Miss—Talbot; Selections from Journal Addressed to Julia Berkeley; Letter to Mary Robinson. Hester (Mulso) Chapone (1727-1801): Introduction; Letters on Filial Obedience; Letter I -Letter III; A Matrimonial Creed; Letters on the Improvement of the Mind; Letter I -Letter X; A Letter to a New-Married Lady; Selected Poems: To Peace; Occasioned by reading Sonnets written in the Style and Manner of Spenser, by T. Edwards, Esq; 1749; To Health; An irregular Ode; On Reading Sonnets by Mrs. Charlotte Smith; Notes