Author Description

"In this new addition to the Blackwell Anthologies series, Duncan Wu offers the reader complete and unabridged texts of: Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Eighteen Hundred and Eleven; Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, The Passage of the Mountain of St Gothard; Ann Batten Cristall, Poetical Sketches; Felicia Dorothea Hemans, Stanzas to the Memory of the Late King and Records of Woman; Hannah More, Sensibility, The Bas-Bleu and Slavery; Mary Robinson, Sappho and Phaon; Charlotte Smith, Elegiac Sonnets (3rd edition), The Emigrants and Beachy Head; Mary Tighe, Psyche; Helen Maria Williams, A Poem on the Bill Lately Passed for Regulating the Slave-Trade and A Farewell, for Two Years, to England; Ann Yearsley, A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave-Trade and Reflections on the Death of Louis XVI." "The selection includes manuscript versions of poems by Susanna Blamire and Lady Caroline Lamb." "Other poets represented are: Joanna Baillie, 'Charlotte Dacre' (Charlotte Byrne), Anne Grant, Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L.E.L.), Isabella Lickbarrow, Amelia Opie, Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan), Ann Radcliffe, Anna Seward, Mary Scott and Phillis Wheatley."--Jacket.