Tracing the rise of conduct literature and the didactic novel over the course of the eighteenth century, this book explores how British women used the didactic

Family Annals, or the Sisters, Mary Hays's last novel, was originally published in 1817. This philosophically complex novel examines the themes of the importanc

This book examines the writings of seven English women economists from the period 1735–1811. It reveals that contrary to what standard accounts of the history

'Heroic Disobedience: The Forced Marriage Plot and the British Novel, 1747-1880' shows the ways in which eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novels used what the

The Routledge Companion to Romantic Women Writers overviews critical reception for Romantic women writers from their earliest periodical reviews through the mos