The following highly selective list is intended only as a starting point for readers who want to explore further women’s part in the history and culture of Romantic era Britain. More titles can be found in the notes, and books cited there are not repeated here; and because biographies of specific individuals may be easily found in library catalogues, they too have been omitted.
Armstrong, Nancy. Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997.
Clark, Anna. The Struggle for the Breeches: Gender and the Making of the British Working Class. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707–1837. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.
Davidoff, Leonore, and Catherine Hall. Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class, 1780–1850. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.
Donald, Diana. The Age of Caricature: Satirical Prints in the Reign of George III. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.
Fay, Elizabeth. A Feminist Introduction to Romanticism. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 1998.
Feldman, Paula. British Women Poets of the Romantic Era. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
George, M. Dorothy. Hogarth to Cruikshank: Social Change in Graphic Satire. New York: Walker, 1967.
Jones, Vivien. Women and Literature in Britain, 1700–1800. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Lynch, Deirdre, ed. Janeites: Austen’s Disciples and Devotees. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.
McCreery, Cindy. The Satirical Gaze: Prints of Women in Late Eighteenth-century England. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004.
Mellor, Anne K. Romanticism and Gender. London: Routledge, 1993.
Midgely, Clare. Women Against Slavery: The British Campaigns, 1780–1830. London: Routledge, 1992.
Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-century England. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980.
St. Clair, William. The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Trumbach, Randolph. Sex and the Gender Revolution. Volume One, Heterosexuality and the Third Gender in Enlightenment London. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
Vickery, Amanda. The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.