Resources & Reading list
Textbooks
Anne K. Mellor (2000). Mothers of the Nation: Women’s Political Writing in England, 1780-1830 (ch. 1). Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.
Mary Wollstonecraft (1995). A Vindication of the Rights of Man and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, ed. Sylvana Tomeselli. Cambridge University Press.
Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott, ed. (2007). Women, Gender and Enlightenment. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Charlotte Smith (1807). Beachy Head.
Marilyn Butler (1975). Jane Austen and the War of Ideas. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Elizabeth Eger, et al, ed. (2001). Women, Writing and the Public Sphere 1700-1830 (Especially the Introduction and chapters 4, 5, 6, and 10). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Vivien Jones, ed (1990). Women in the Eighteenth Century: Constructions of Femininity. London: Routledge.
Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus, ed (1997). Gender in Eighteenth-Century England: Roles, Representations, and Responsibilities. London and New York: Longman.
Anna Letitia Barbauld (1812). Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, A Poem.
Anna Letitia Barbauld (1792). Epistle to William Wilberforce.
Mary Wollstonecraft (2007). Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman’ in ‘Mary’ and ‘ The Wrongs of Woman, ed. Gary Kelly. Oxford: Oxford World’s Classics.
Harriet Guest (2000). Small Change: Women, Learning, Patriotism, 1750-1810. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.
Amanda Vickery (1998). The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
Jane Austen (1998). Mansfield Park, ed. Claudia L. Johnson. New York: W.W. Norton.
Charlotte Smith (1793). The Emigrants.