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Clara Helen Whitmore. Woman's Work in English Fiction, from the Restoration to the Mid-Victorian Period
Woman's Work in English Fiction, from the Restoration to the Mid-Victorian Period
Table of Contents
PREFACE
WOMAN'S WORK IN. ENGLISH FICTION
CHAPTER I
The Duchess of Newcastle. Mrs. Behn. Mrs. Manley
CHAPTER II
Sarah Fielding. Mrs. Lennox. Mrs. Haywood. Mrs. Sheridan
CHAPTER III
Fanny Burney
CHAPTER IV
Hannah More
CHAPTER V
Charlotte Smith. Mrs. Inchbald
CHAPTER VI
Clara Reeve. Ann Radcliffe. Harriet and Sophia Lee
CHAPTER VII
Maria Edgeworth. Lady Morgan
CHAPTER VIII
Elizabeth Hamilton. Anna Porter. Jane Porter
CHAPTER IX
Amelia Opie. Mary Brunton
CHAPTER X
Jane Austen
CHAPTER XI
Miss Ferrier. Miss Mitford. Anna Maria Hall
CHAPTER XII
Lady Caroline Lamb. Mrs. Shelley
CHAPTER XIII
Mrs. Gore. Mrs. Bray
CHAPTER XIV
Julia Pardoe. Mrs. Trollope. Harriet Martineau
CHAPTER XV
The Brontës
CHAPTER XVI
Mrs. Gaskell
CONCLUSION
INDEX
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Clara Helen Whitmore
Published by Good Press, 2021
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