Table of Contents

1. Mary Robinson, Eighteenth-century Romantic2. Exemplary Women: Mary Wollstonecraft, Hannah More, and Their Worlds3. Not Quite Good Enough: Three Imperfect Lives4. The Modern Venus, or, Improper Ladies and Others5. Stronger Passions of the Mind: Women in Literature and the Visual Arts6. Rational Dames and Ladies on Horseback: Scientists and Travelers7. The Youngest RomanticsThe Pforzheimer Collection and Its Female Inhabitants: An Afterword by Stephen Wagner

About the Author

Elizabeth Campbell Denlinger is co-curator of the exhibit "Before Victoria: Extraordinary Women of the British Romantic Era" at The New York Public Library. She has published a number of articles on British women writers and taught at several colleges. She lives in New York City. Lyndall Gordon is the author of several books, including T. S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life; Charlotte Bronte: A Passionate Life; and A Private Life of Henry James: Two Women and His Art. She lives in Oxford, England.