Memoirs of Emma Courtney
10 best books like Memoirs of Emma Courtney (Mary Hays): Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist, The Beggar's Opera, The Journal of John Woolman, Millenium Hall, Poems Between Women: Four Centuries of Love, Romantic Friendship, and Desire, The School for Scandal and Other Plays, Ethan Frome and Selected Stories, A Sentimental Journey and Other Writings, Cyrano, Gigi, Julie de Carneilhan, and Chance Acquaintances: Three Short Novels
| Author | Charles Brockden Brown |
| ISBN | 0140390790 |
I read WIELAND: OR THE TRANSFORMATION for different reasons than I think the majority will read it. I'll bet a lot of people read it because it's a very early example of the "American Novel". Most are probably assigned it for a class. Perhaps some read it because of interest in a particular aspect (religious...
| Author | John Gay |
| ISBN | 0140432205 |
An 18th Century parody of the Italian Opera
23 December 2013
I want to give this play a high score simply because of it's context and content, and as it is one of the only satirical operas that has survived from the early 18th Century should also give this play, or more properly opera, some...
| Author | John Woolman |
| ISBN | 1432607790 |
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving,...
| Author | Sarah Scott |
| ISBN | 1551110156 |
This is an interesting novel published in 1762. It isn’t easy to read because it has that irritating eighteenth century habit of needing to be didactic and morally improving. It was written by Sarah Scott and describes a female run and populated community run on what might be described as utopian lines....
| Author | Emma Donoghue |
| ISBN | 0231109253 |
The collection Poems Between Women explores many facets of female-female relationships in poems not only about love or affection between or inspired by women but also about the moments that complicate and call into question the nature of sexuality and intimacy between women. Including women married...
| Author | Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
| ISBN | 0192825674 |
Richly exploited comic situations, effervescent wit, and intricate plots combine to make Sheridan's work among the best of of all English comedy. The School for Scandal (1777) is his masterpiece, a brilliantly crafted comedy of contrasts in which brothers Joseph and Charles Surface contend for...
| Author | Edith Wharton |
| ISBN | 1593080905 |
One of Edith Wharton’s few works of fiction that takes place outside of an urban, upper-class setting, Ethan Frome draws upon the bleak, barren landscape of rural New England. A poor farmer, Ethan finds himself stuck in a miserable marriage to Zeenie, a sickly, tyrannical woman, until he falls in...
| Author | Laurence Sterne |
| ISBN | 0199537186 |
Celebrated in its own day as the progenitor of 'a school of sentimental writers', A Sentimental Journey (1768) has outlasted its many imitators because of the humour and mischievous eroticism that inform Mr Yorick's travels. Setting out to journey to France and Italy he gets little further than Lyons...
| Author | Geraldine McCaughrean |
| ISBN | 0152058052 |
A gallant solider, a sharp wit, and a man of letters, Cyrano de Bergerac seems like the obvious romantic hero. He has just one noteworthy flaw: an improbably large nose. And after a lifetime of loving the beautiful Roxane from afar, Cyrano must find a way--any way at all--to express his feelings for...
| Author | Colette |
| ISBN | 0374527857 |
Two volumes of Colette's most beloved works, with a new Introduction by Judith Thurman.
Perhaps Colette's best-known work, Gigi is the story of a young girl being raised in a household more concerned with success and money than with the desires of the heart. But Gigi is uninterested in the dishonest...
| Author | William Hill Brown |
| ISBN | 0140434682 |
Written in epistolary form and drawn from actual events, The Power of Sympathy (1789) and The Coquette (1797) were two of the earliest novels published in America. William Hill Brown's The Power of Sympathy reflects eighteenth-century America's preoccupation with the role of women as safekeepers...
When Miss Milner announces her passion for her guardian, a Catholic priest, she breaks through the double barrier of his religious vocation and 18th-century British society's standards of proper womanly behavior. Like other women writers of her time, Elizabeth Inchbald concentrates on the question...
| Author | Susan Howe |
| ISBN | 0811215385 |
In The Midnight's amply illustrated five sections, three of poetry and two of prose, we find—swirling around the poet's mother—ghosts, family photographs, whispers, interjections, bed hangings, unfinished lace, the fly-leaves of old books, The Master of Ballantrae, the Yeats brothers,...
| Author | Susan Ferrier |
| ISBN | 0192838938 |
Marriage (1818) is the shrewdly observant tale of a young woman's struggles with parental authority and courtship. Like her contemporaries, Maria Edgeworth and Jane Austen, Susan Ferrier adopts an ideal of rational domesticity, illustrating the virtues of a reasonable heroine who learns to act...
| Author | Charlotte Turner Smith |
| ISBN | 1551113597 |
The plot of Charlotte Smith's autobiographical first novel Emmeline (1788) includes the expected thrills of the eighteenth-century courtship novel: abduction, duels, and a "fairy-tale princess."At the same time, the novel satirically reworks such literary conventions by focusing on the dangers...
| Author | Michelle de Kretser |
| ISBN | 0553381210 |
Writing with poignancy and mesmerizing detail, Michelle de Kretser has penned a haunting tale set against the madness of the French Revolution -- a wistful, elegantly rendered novel of unrequited love and personal triumph in a world gone tragically awry.
The 1789 storming of the Bastille...
| Author | Eliza Fowler Haywood |
Published together for the first time, Eliza Haywood's Anti-Pamela and Henry Fielding's An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews are the two most important responses to Samuel Richardson's novel Pamela. Anti-Pamela comments on Richardson's representations of work, virtue, and gender,...
The Barber of Seville / The Marriage of Figaro / The Guilty Mother
| Author | Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais |
| ISBN | 0192804138 |
Eighteenth-century France produced only one truly international theater star, Beaumarchais, and only one name, Figaro, to combine with Don Quixote and D'Artagnan in the ranks of popular myth. But who was Figaro? He was quickly appropriated by Mozart and Rossini who tamed the original impertinent,...
Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman
| Author | William Godwin |
| ISBN | 1551112590 |
William Godwin's memoir of his wife, Mary Wollstonecraft, marks a transition in Godwin's philosophical development from extreme rationalism to the recognition of the moral importance of feeling and sympathy which was to energize his later writings. Memoirs also belongs to a tradition of biographical...
| Author | Clara Reeve |
| ISBN | 0192803271 |
When Sir Philip Harclay returns to England after a long absence, he finds that his childhood friend, Arthur, Lord Lovel, is no longer alive, and that the castle and estates of the Lovel family have twice changed hands. But a mysteriously abandoned set of rooms in the castle of Lovel promises to disclose...
Mary & The Wrongs of Woman (2 in 1)
| Author | Mary Wollstonecraft |
Mary Wollstonecraft's work put a basis for feminism. Like I said in my review for A Vindication of the Rights of Womanhe's one of the first feminist philosophers and as such, she's inspiring. However, the reason why the book I just mentioned is her most well known book is quite obvious after reading this.
I...
The Mummy!: A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century
| Author | Jane C. Webb Loudon |
| ISBN | 0472065742 |
A rather odd little book about a Mad Scientist (sort of) who revives, at the start of the 22nd century, an ancient Egyptian mummy.
This book was written as an obvious reaction to Frankenstein, but, frankly, is quite a bit its inferior, though it chooses to portray the revived object in a benign...
