Hi, my name is Jennifer McLain and this is my web page on the British Romantic Period's conduct manuals and novels. I have put this page together for a Summer Scholars Project (English 340.U) at Miami University (of Ohio). Throughout this bibiliography you will find links to my other web pages:
These pages are filled with quotes from the materials I studied here at Miami and at the Beinecke Library at Yale University. I also wrote essays on what I have learned from the works by Mary Ann Hanway's Ellinor and Charlotte Smith's The Young Philosopher .
Astell, Mary. Reflections Upon Marriage. London: for R. Wilkin, 1706.
Burney, Frances. Evelina (1778). ed. Kristina Straub. Boston: Bedford, 1997.
Brunton, Mary. Self- Control. 1811. 2 vols. Introduction by Gina Lauria. The Feminist Controversy in England Series. New York: Garland, 1974.
Burton, John. Lectures of Female Education and Manners. London: Rochester Printers, 1793.
Chace, Amos. The Excellent Female. London: Collier and Buel, 1791.
Chapone, Hester. Letters on the Improvement of the Mind. Walpole NH: Thomas and Thomas, 1802.
Davidoff, Leonore and Catherine Hall. Family Fortunes. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1987.
Duff, William. Letters on the Intellectual and Moral Character of Women. 1807. Introduction by Gina Lauria. The Feminist Controversy in England Series. New York: Garland, 1974.
Elias, Norbert. The History of Manners; The Civilizing Process: volume 1. Trans. Edmund Jephcott. New York: Pantheon, 1978.
Fielding, Sarah. The Governess. Philadelphia: press of T. Dobson, 1791.
Focault, Michel. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. 1979. Trans. Alan Sheridan. New York: Vintage, 1975. Vol. 3.
Fordyce, James. Sermons to Young Women. London: for A. Millar and T. Cadell, 1766.
Gregory, John. A Father's Legacy to His Daughters. Litchfield, CT: Collier and Buel, 1792.
Hanway, Mary Anne. Ellinor; or the World As It Is. (1798). 4 vols. Introduction by Gina Lauria. The Feminist Controversy in England Series. New York: Garland, 1974.
Honoraria. The Female Mentor, or Select Conversations. Philadelphia: John Hoff, 1802.
Horner, Joyce M. The English Women Novelists and Their Connection with the Feminist Movement. Menasha: The Collegiate P, 1930.
Macauley, Catharine. Letters on Education; With Observations on the religious and Metaphysical Subjects. 1790. Introduction by Gina Lauria. The Feminist Controversy in England Series. New York: Garland, 1974.
Marriot, Thomas. Female Conduct: Being an Essay on the Art of Pleasing. London: W. Owen, 1759.
More, Hannah. Practical Piety, or the Influence of the Religion of the heart on the conduct of the life. Lexington: Thomas Skillman, 1823.
More, Hannah. Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education with the View of the Principles and Conduct Prevalent Among Women of Rank and Fortune. Boston: Cornhill, 1800.
Richardson, Alan. Literature, Education, and Romanticism; Reading as a Social Practice, 1780-1832. Cambridge: Cambridge U P, 1994.
Roberts, James. Introductory Lessons. London: G & W Nichol, Booksellers to his Majesty, 1809.
Rogers, Katharine M. Feminism in the Eighteenth- Century. Chicago: U of Illinois P, 1982.
Schrank, Barbara G. And David J. Supino. The Famous Miss Burney; the Diaries and Letters of Fanny Burney. New York: John Day, 1976.
Smith, Charlotte. The Young Philosopher. 1798. 4 vols. Introduction by Gina Lauria. The Feminist Controversy in England Series. New York: Garland, 1974.
Swift, Jonathan. Directions to Servants in General. London, 1746.
Spencer, Jane. The Rise of the Woman Novelist: From Aphra Behn to Jane Austen. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1986.
West, Jane. Letters to a Young Lady in Which the Duties and Character of Women are Considered. 1806. 3 vols. Introduction by Gina Lauria. The Feminist Controversy in England Series. New York: Garland, 1974.
Wildeblood, Joan and Peter Brinson. The Polite World: A Guide to English Manners and Deportment from the Thirteenth to the Nineteenth Century. New York: Oxford UP, 1965.
Williams, Helen Maria. Julia; a novel. 1790. 2 vols. Introduction by Gina Lauria. The Feminist Controversy in England series. New York: Garland, 1974.
Wilson, Carol Shiner and Joel Haefner eds. Revisioning Romanticism; British Women Writers, 1776-1837. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1994.
Wisdom in Miniature. Worcester, Mass: Press of Isaiah Thomas, 1795.
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