Before Victoria: Extraordinary Women of the British Romantic Era
CONTENTS
FOREWORD
Lyndall Gordon
PREFACE
Chapter One.
MARY ROBINSON, EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ROMANTIC
Chapter Two.
EXEMPLARY WOMEN:
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT, HANNAH MORE, AND THEIR WORLDS
Chapter Three.
NOT QUITE GOOD ENOUGH: THREE IMPERFECT LIVES
Chapter Four.
THE MODERN VENUS, OR, IMPROPER LADIES AND OTHERS
Chapter Five.
STRONGER PASSIONS OF THE MIND:
WOMEN IN LITERATURE AND THE VISUAL ARTS
Chapter Six.
RATIONAL DAMES AND LADIES ON HORSEBACK:
SCIENTISTS AND TRAVELERS
Chapter Seven.
THE YOUNGEST ROMANTICS
THE PFORZHEIMER COLLECTION AND ITS FEMALE INHABITANTS:
AN AFTERWORD
Stephen Wagner
NOTES
SUGGESTED READING
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INDEX