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Written and published during what one literary critic has called the “bull market” of poetry, writings in the poetess tradition were disseminated in myriad collections – miscellanies, beauties, literary annuals, gift books – and achieved prominence . . . .
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Update August 2017
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We are upgrading the site with new texts, and so some links may be temporarily unavailable. We will finish this month.
New to the Poetess Archive August 2017
Editor Mary Waters
- "Introductory Discourse," Plays on the Passions, Joanna Baillie
- "An Inquiry into those Kinds of Distress which Excite Agreeable Sensations," Anna Laetitia Barbauld
- "On Romances, An Imitation," Anna Letitial Barbauld
- "On Artificial Taste," Mary Wollstonecraft
- "On Poetry," Mary Wollstonecraft
New to the Poetess Archive August 2015
Editor Mary Waters
- "Robert Bage" from The British Novelists
- "De Foe" from The British Novelists
- "Fielding" from The British Novelists
- "Goldsmith" from The British Novelists
- Richard Graves from The British Novelists
- "Hawkesworth" from The British Novelists
- "Johnson" from The British Novelists
- "Mackenzie" from The British Novelists
- "Dr. Moore" from The British Novelists
- "Smollet" from The British Novelists
- "Walpole" from The British Novelists
For more of Barbauld's Criticism, please see the links on the home page of the Criticism tab, above.