Awarded the Elma Dangerfield Prize by the International Byron Society in 2013 The nineteenth century is sometimes seen as a lacuna between two literary periods.

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Taking twenty women writers of the Romantic period, Romanticism and Gender explores a neglected period of the female literary tradition, and for the first time

This groundbreaking volume not only documents the richness of their literary contributions but changes our thinking about the poetry of the English Romantic per

A wide-ranging and accessible account of the pioneering professional women writers who flourished during the Romantic period.