Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment

Chapter 1 Sensuousness in the Poetry of Eighteenth-Century Women Poets

Chapter 2 ‘All Passion Extinguish’ d’: The Case of Mary Chandler, 1687–1745

Chapter 3 ‘A Dialogue’: Elizabeth Carter’s Passion for the Female Mind

Chapter 4 Mary Seymour Montague: Anonymity and ‘Old Satyrical Codes’

Chapter 5 The Female Poet and the Poetess: Two Traditions of British Women’s Poetry, 1780–1830

Chapter 7 ‘This Muse-born Wonder’: the Occluded Voice of Ann Yearsley, Milkwoman and Poet of Clifton

Chapter 8 The Maid and the Minister’s Wife: Literary Philanthropy in Regency York

Chapter 9 Romantic Women Poets: Inscribing the Self

Chapter 10 Homosocial Women: Martha Sansom, Constantia Grierson, Mary Leapor and Georgic Verse Epistle

Chapter 11 Charlotte Smith’s Elegiac Sonnets : Losses and Gains

Chapter 12 Fashioning a Female Canon: Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and the Politics of the Anthology