Understanding this melancholy is easy in biographical terms, as Kennedy, Hawley and Fletcher argue. As I have suggested, Smith invites autobiographical readings of her poems in the prefaces to the numerous editions of the Elegiac ...
This book brings together two of the most significant British women writers of the Romantic period, Charlotte Smith and Helen Maria Williams, and explores the poetics and politics of their work.
Angela Keane addresses the work of five women writers of the 1790s and its problematic relationship with the canon of Romantic literature.
When Marge Hall walked up to Roy Johnson and asked him to dance she had no idea what she was about to set in motion.
When Her looks back at her foot- prints , she perceives that : ' [ h ] er track was uneven and one footprint seemed always to trail unsteadily ... The meadow lay like a piece of outspread parchment partially curled under ' ( H.D. 1984 ...