Women and Poetry 1660-1750

SARAH PRESCOTT is a Lecturer in English at the University of Wales. She is the author of several articles on early eighteenth-century women's writing and will be publishing Women, Authorship and Literary Culture, 1690-1740, also from Palgrave Macmillan. - DAVID E. SHUTTLETON lectures in the Department of English, University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He has published widely in journals and anothologies on eighteenth-century literature and contributed to Women's Poetry of the Enlightenment: Essays on the Making of a Canon, 1730-1820 (edited by Armstrong & Blaine, Macmillan, 1998).

• Notes on Contributors Chronology Introduction; S.Prescott & D.E.Shuttleton PART I: INDIVIDUAL POETS Aphra Behn (1640?-1689); S.Wiseman Anne Killigrew (1660-1685); D.E.Shuttleton Jane Barker (1652-1732); C.S.Wilson Mary, Lady Chudleigh (1656-1732); R.M.Mills Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661-1720) J.Spencer Elizabeth Singer Rowe (1674-1737); S.Prescott Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762); J.Keith Mary Leapor (1722-1746); V.Rumbold PART II: CONTEXTS Imagining the Woman Poet; J.Spencer Rank, Community and Audience; V.Rumbold From Manuscript to Print; M. J. M.Ezell Women in the Literary Marketplace; G.Greer PART III: POETIC PRACTICE Classical and Biblical Models; C.T.Kairoff Political Verse and Satire; K.R.King The Labouring-Class Women Poets; D.Landry General Bibliography Index