Woman's wit : popular culture's animadversions on women, and expressions of female intelligence in magazine literature, 1730-1805 / compiled by Edward W.R. Pitcher.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pitcher, Edward W. R.

Series:

Studies in British and American magazines ; v. 22.

Studies in British and American magazines ; v. 22

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Women authors.

English literature.

English wit and humor--Women authors.

English wit and humor.

English literature--18th century.

Women--Literary collections.

Women.

Women--Humor.

Genre:

Literary collections.

Literature.

Humor.

Physical Description:

392 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, [2002]

Contents:

Miss-Shapings 5

1. Education of Young Women 5

"Of the Education of the Ladies: a Fragment" [1728?] 5

"Errors of Modern Education" [1735] 8

"On Thinking" [1737] 9

"A New Method for Making Women as Useful and as Capable of Maintaining Themselves, as the Men are; and consequently preventing their becoming Old Maids, or taking Ill Courses. By a Lady" [1739] 9

"A Young Lady's Impatience of Control" [1751] 12

"Of the Peculiar Management of Daughters" [1767] 15

"On the Use of Boarding Schools for Young Ladies" [1771] 16

"Thoughts on Education" [1772] 17

"On the education of the Fair-Sex" [1773] 18

"A New Mode of Education" [1776] 20

"On the Cultivation of the Heart and Temper in the Education of Daughters" [1777, 1778] 26

"An Essay on Female Education [Extract]" [1779] 34

"On the Literary Education of Women" [1781] 37

"Of the Academies for young Gentlemen and Ladies" [1792] 39

"On National Education" [1792] 40

"On Female Study, and Initiation into Knowledge" [1799] 58

2. Characters 61

"Maids, Wives, and Widows. Part One: Widows" [1734] 61

"Interesting Reflections on the Life of Miss Polly Baker" [1747; 1792] 64

"Melissa. A Character" [1756] 68

"Clara and Silia contrasted" [1756] 69

"Camilla and Flora" [1756] 70

"A Sketch of a Learned Wife" [1758? 1776] 72

"Character of a Mighty Good Sort of Woman" [c.1762] 73

"The Character of a Loving Wife" [1763] 74

"A Female Oddity [Flirtilla]" [1772] 76

"A Male Oddity" [1772] 77

"Coraly: A Portrait" [1774] 78

"Pictures of the Times" [1774] 79

"The Ladies Head-Dress" [1777] 80

"An Husband's Account of a Sickly Wife" [1777] 80

"The Envious Brunette" [1778] 81

"The Buck Below Stairs" [1779] 84

"Comparison between the Sexes [Extract]" [1781] 85

3. Biographies in Brief 89

"Instances of Remarkable Women" [1730] 90

"Some Account of Hannah Snell, the Female Soldier" [1750] 93

"The Life of Hypatia" [1771] 95

"Life of Ayesha, Widow of Mahomet" [1781] 99

"Memoirs of Margaret Duchess of Newcastle [d.1673]" [1775] 100

"Memoirs of the Celebrated Ninon De L'Enclos [d.1705]" [1777] 103

"Memoirs of Marie Anne Du Boccage" [d.1802] [1782] 106

"Sophia Hoffman" [1788] 109

"Anecdotes of Mrs. McKenzie" [1794] 111

"Lady Harriet Ackland" [1800] 112

4. Cultural and Domestic Identities 115

"The Lady's Dressing-Room" [1730; 1732] 115

"On Marriage as Prostitution" [1732] 119

"A New Simile for the Ladies" [1732] 122

"The Female Microcosm" [1732] 124

"Women

Translation of Anacreon's In Foeminas" [1732] 125

"Woman's Hard Fate. By a Lady" [1733] 126

"Marital Advice" [1733] 127

"My Own Epitaph" [1736] 128

"An Epistle to Mr. Pope. By a Lady. Occasioned by his Characters of Women" [1736] 128

"A Riddle" [1738] 131

"Fortune" [1738] 132

"Woman of Ten different Sorts. A Satire. Translated from the Greek of Simonides" [1738] 134

"Trial of the Female Coxcombs" [1740] 137

"Reflections on the Female Sex" [1741] 141

"In Praise of Woman" [1741] 143

"Mrs. Mehetabel Wright to her Husband" [pre-1750] 144

"Copy of a Letter from Miss T

, a Relation of the Right Hon. J. T's, to a Daughter of his, immediately after her Birth, under Cover to Mrs. T." [1750] 147

"Instructions for the Choice of a Wife" [1750] 148

"Wit and Beauty. An Allegory. Humbly Addressed to the Ladies of Great Britain" [1750] 150

"The Art of Coquetry. By Mrs. Charlotte Lennox" [1750] 152

"The Dream of an Old Maid" [1756] 156

"A Congratulatory Epistle from a Reformed Rake, to John F

g [Fielding], Esq., upon the new Scheme of Reclaiming Prostitutes" [1758] 157

"Relation of a Vision at Margate" [1770] 161

"Letter from Olivia to Lucinda" [1770] 164

"On Saturday, and Absurd Cleanliness" [1774] 166

"The Equality of the Sexes Considered" [1776] 169

"On Female Neatness After Marriage" [1777] 170

"On the Political Abilities of the Female Sex" [1778] 172

"Hints to the Ladies" [1778] 174

"The Female Advocate [Extract]" [1779] 175

"On the Happy Influence arising from Female Society [Extract]" [1779] 175

"Sketches of Customs and Ceremonies peculiar to Women [Extract]" [1780] 176

"Instructions Preparatory to the Married State [Extract]" [1781] 178

"On Conjugal Affection [Extract]" [1782] 179

"On Annual White-Washings. Copy of a letter from a Gentleman in America, to his Friend in Europe" [1785] [1787] 181

"Letter from Nitidia, answering the Letter on White-Washings" [1787] 181

Three Sonnets by "Clarissa" (Mrs. B. Finch) [1789] 188

"Mary and the Wrongs of Woman: Extract" [1789] 189

"The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed" [1792] 192

"Whether Female Genius is Equal to that of the Male" [1793] 207

"Rights of Woman. By a Young Lady of this City [N.Y.]" [1795] 209

"A Characteristic Sketch of the Long-Island Dutch" [1795] 211

"Washing-Day" [1797] 212

Female Parliaments and Societies 215

"A Council of Women. (In Imitation of the Senatulus of Erasmus)" [1732] 216

"Assembly of Ladies in the North of England" [1736] 221

"Convocation of Old Maids" [1737] 224

"Speech by Belinda in a Convocation of Women" [1740] 227

"Letter of Matthew Mendall on Female Government" [1740] 229

"Resolutions taken at an Assembly or Convention of Ladies" [1740] 232

"Letter of Simon Noodle on Petticoat Government" [1743] 235

"Parliament of Women: A Dream" [1754] 237

"Female Parliament: Letter of Timothy Canvas" [1755] 241

"A Female Parliament Debates Placing a Tax on Batchelors" [1756] 246

"A Female Parliament, Guardians of the British Constitution" [1757] 249

"The Seeking Assembly" [1760-61] 253

"A New Plan for an Unexceptionable Female Coterie" [1770] 258

"Woman. An Essay" [1775] 260

"An Account of a Female Society in the Country" [1777] 263

"Outlines of a Female Parliament" [1780-81] 266

"The Female Senate" [1791-92] 274

"Account of the Nation of Cougnontain Secouima (or Women without Husbands) in South America" [1794] 280

Poetical Correspondents 283

Molly Barbour Darwall and Randle Darwall 283

"Damon and Caelia; or The Inconstants" [1734] 283

"The Constant Admirer" [1735] 284

"The Officious Mistress" [1735] 284

"The Conquest" [1735] 285

"The Amorous Contest" [Ten Poems of 1735-36] 286

"The Mutual Gratification: A Song. By Miss M. B." [1736] 299

"The Disturb'd Repose; or, Uncomfortable Pernoctation" [1736] 299

"The Anxious Enquiry; or, Sorrowful Suspense. A Familiar Epistle; from a Lady Abroad, to her Spouse at Home" [1736] 300

"Love for Love; or, the Mournful Recluse: An Epistle" [1736] 303

"The Earnest Intreaty; or, Mild Expostulation" [1737] 307

Eliza Gilding Turner and Daniel Turner (1775-83) 309

"Eliza to Fidelio. Written in the Early Days of their Acquaintance" [1775?] 318

"To Fidelio" [1780] 320

"Lines Addressed to a Friend" [1783] 321

Choice Poems 323

"The Lass's Choice" [1732] 324

"Advice to the Lasses" [1732] 324

"The Female Wish" [1733] 325

"The Wish: Written Extempore, by a Gentleman of a Decay'd Family" [1734] 325

"Of the Choice of a Wife" [1734] 326

"The Wish" [1735] 328

"The Little Wish" [1736; 1764] 328

"The Wish: A Song" [1736] 330

"The Choice of a Wife" [1736] 331

"The Wish" [1736-37] 332

"To a Gentleman who always gives a Grand Entertainment on his Birth-Day" [1737] 335

"Pastora's Wish" [1737] 336

"The Wish" [1737] 337

"The Husband" [1737] 339

"The Maiden's Wish" [1739] 340

"Writ Over a Chimney in Gloucestershire" [1741] 340

"A Wish, Alamode de Crambo" [1744] 341

"The Choice of a Wife" [1745; 1774] 342

"An Humble Wish by a Young Lady" [1749] 343

"Chloe's Choice. A New Song" [1751] 344

"The Wish. Written in the Year 1752" [1752; 1765] 344

"The Choice, by a Young Lady" [1757] 345

"A Modern Choice" [1760] 345

"A Choice, by a Young Lady of Nineteen" [1760] 346

"The Choice of a Husband" [1760] 346

"By a Lady" [1760] 349

"Epistle from a Lady in the Country" [1762] 349

"To the Hon. Mr.

B***, On his insisting that Love could not exist without Wine. By a Lady" [1762] 350

"On the Choice of a Husband" [1764] 351

"The Lady's Choice" [1765] 351

"Essay on Woman, in Four Epistles: Extract" [1771] 351

"Female Demonstration" [1772] 353

"The Characteristics of a Good Wife" [1774] 354

"A Wish, by a Lady" [1775] 355

"A Description of a Wife that is Wished for by the Writer" [1777] 356

"Stella's Soliloquy" [1778] 357

"A Picture of a Good Husband" [1778] 357

"The Lady's Choice of a Husband" [1791] 358

"The Choice of a Husband. By a Young Lady" [1794] 359

"The Choice" [1804] 360.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-392) and indexes.

ISBN:

0773468749

OCLC:

50919743