Suggested Reading


Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1997.

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.

Donoghue, Emma. Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture, 1668–1801. London: Scarlet Press, 1993.

Fay, Elizabeth. A Feminist Introduction to Romanticism. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 1998.

Feldman, Paula R., ed. British Women Poets of the Romantic Era: An Anthology. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

Jones, Vivien, ed. Women and Literature in Britain, 1700–1800. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Midgley, Clare. Women Against Slavery: The British Campaigns, 1780–1870. London: Routledge, 1992.

St. Clair, William. The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Stone, Lawrence. The Family, Sex and Marriage in England, 1500–1800. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1977.

Vickery, Amanda. The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.