Nonconformist Women Writers, 1720–1840
Editors: Timothy Whelan and Julia B Griffin
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This is a scholarly edition of the public and private works of a remarkable circle of women writers. The collection features ten nonconformist women including Anne Steele, Mary Steele, Mary Scott and Maria Grace Saffery, combining new editions of their previously published works with unpublished hymns, poems and letters newly transcribed from manuscripts held at the Angus Library, Oxford.
Though isolated both geographically and culturally their writings reveal a group of women who were keenly aware of current events, widely read, assertive in their opinions, highly imaginative, inspired at times by romantic sensibilities far ahead of the Romantic movement, at times all too aware of the limitations placed upon them by the circumstances of their place and time, and yet they still managed to document their lives and times and to pass that legacy on from generation to generation.
The edition will be of interest to those studying eighteenth century studies, women’s writing and history and religious history.
Contents
PART I
Volume 1
General Introduction
Anne Steele, Poems on Subjects Chiefly Devotional (1780)
Volume 2
Anne Steele, Miscellaneous Pieces in Verse and Prose (1780)
Anne Steele, Verses for Children (1788)
Unpublished Poetry, Prose and Correspondence of Anne Steele
Volume 3
Poetry, Prose and Correspondence of Mary Steele
Volume 4
Poetry and Correspondence of Mary Scott
Poetry of Hannah Towgood Wakeford
Poetry of Mary Steele Wakeford
Poetry of Marianna Attwater
Poetry of Jane Attwater
Poetry and Periodical Prose of Elizabeth Coltman
PART II
Volume 5
Poetry of Maria Grace Saffery
Volume 6
Correspondence of Maria Grace Saffery
Volume 7
Maria Grace Saffery, The Noble Enthusiast: A Modern Romance (1792)
Elizabeth Coltman, Plain Tales: Chiefly intended for the Use of Charity Schools (1799)
Elizabeth Coltman, The Schoolmistress; or, The True History of Jenny Hickling (c.1822)
Volume 8
Diary of Mrs John Walrond
Selections from the Diary of Anne Cator Steele
Spiritual Meditations of Hannah Towgood Wakeford
Selections from the Diary and Correspondence of Jane Attwater
Diary of Frances Barrett Ryland
Index
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