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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction READING WOMEN'S TEXTSMary Robinson's Lyrical Tales in Context Becoming an Author: Mary Robinson'sMemoirs and the Origins of the Woman Artist's Autobiography "A name moredear": Daughters, Fathers, and Desire in A Simple Story, The False Friend,and Mathilda Romantic Aspirations, Restricted Possibilities: The Novels ofCharlotte Smith GENDER AND THE CULTURAL MATRIX Configurations of FeminineReform: The Woman Writer and the Tradition of Dissent The Way Above theWorld: Religion and Gender in Welsh and Anglo-Welsh Women's Writing,1780-1830 "Domestic Affections" and "the spear of Minerva": Felicia Hemansand the Dilemma of Gender*128 Lost Needles, Tangled Threads: Stitchery,Domesticity, and the Artistic Enterprise in Barbauld, Edgeworth, Taylor, andLamb RE-VISIONING ROMANTIC AESTHETICS Female Botanists and the Poetry ofCharlotte Smith Literary History, Romanticism, and Felicia Hemans ThePolitics of Fancy in the Age of Sensibility The Romantic Scene(s) of WritingEnglish Romantic Women Writers and Theatre Theory: Joanna Baillie's Prefacesto the Plays on the Passions Bibliography Contributors Index