The Learned Lady in England, 1650-1760

by Myra Reynolds

I. BOOKS BY WOMEN BEFORE 1760

"A. M." Mrs. The Cook's New Year's Gift, Cookery refined, or The Lady, Gentlewoman and Servant-maid's Companion. London, 1697, 1700.

Astell, Mary. Letters concerning the Love of God. London, 1695.

—— A Serious Proposal to the Ladies for the Advancement of their True and Greatest Interest. London, 1694. Fourth edition, 1697.

—— Some Reflections on Marriage. London, 1700.

—— Moderation Truly Stated. London, 1704.

—— A Fair Way with Dissenters. London, 1704.

—— An Impartial Enquiry into the Causes of Rebellion and Civil War in this Kingdom. London, 1704.

—— The Christian Religion as Professed by a Daughter of the Church of England. London, 1705.

—— Bart'lemy Fair or an Enquiry after Wit. London, 1709.

"A. W." A Continuation of Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia. Written by a young Gentlewoman, Mrs. A. W. [Anna Weamys]. London, 1690.

Bacon, Lady Anne. An Apology for the Church of England. [Translated from the Latin treatise by Bishop Jewel.] London, 1564.

Barber, Mrs. Mary. Poems. London, 1734.

Barker, Jane. Poetical Recreations.... In Two Parts. Part I. Occasionally written by Mrs. Jane Barker. Part II. By Several Gentlemen of the Universities and Others. London, 1688.

—— The Entertaining Novels of Mrs. Jane Barker. London, 1715, 1719.

—— A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies, or Love and Virtue Recommended.... By Mrs. Jane Barker, of Wilsthorp, near Stamford, in Lincolnshire. London, 1723.

Behn, Mrs. Aphra. Works. Edited by Montague Summers. Six volumes. London, 1915.

Bell, Mrs. Susanna. The Legacie of a Dying Mother to her mourning Children. London, 1672.

Blackwell, Mrs. Elizabeth. A Curious Herbal containing Five Hundred Cuts of the most useful Plants which are now used in the Practice of Physic. Two volumes. London, 1739.

Brooke, Lady Elizabeth. Selections from the Writings of Lady Elizabeth Brooke in The Lady's Monitor. London, 1828.

Burnet, Mrs. Elizabeth. A Method of Devotion. London, 1713. (Third edition.)

Bury, Mrs. Elizabeth. Diary (Published in abridged form). Bristol, 1721.

Carter, Elizabeth. Poems on Particular Occasions. London, 1738.

—— An Examination of Pope's Essay on Man. [Translated from the first treatise of Crousaz.] London, 1738.

—— Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy Explained for the Use of the Ladies. In Six Dialogues on Light and Colour. Two volumes. London, 1739.

—— The Moral Discourses of Epictetus. Translated by Elizabeth Carter. Two volumes. Dutton and Company, New York, 1899. [First edition, 1758.]

—— Poems on Several Occasions. London, 1762.

—— Letters between Mrs. Elizabeth Carter and Miss Catherine Talbot. From the Year 1741 to 1770. To which are added Letters from Mrs. Carter to Mrs. Vesey between the Years 1763 and 1787. Four volumes. London, 1809.

Cellier, Mrs. Elizabeth. Malice Defeated. London, 1680.

—— A Scheme for the Foundation of a Royal Hospital and raising a revenue of 5000l or 6000l a year by and for the Maintenance of a Corporation of Skilful Midwives. London, 1687. Printed in Harleian Miscellany. (Park.) Vol. IV.

Centlivre, Mrs. Susanna. Works. Three volumes. London, 1761.

Chandler, Mary. A Description of Bath. London, 1744. (Sixth edition.)

Chidley, Mrs. Katherine. The Justification of the Independent Churches of Christ. London, 1641.

Chudleigh, Lady. The Ladies' Defence. London, 1699.

—— Poems. London, 1703.

—— Essays. London, 1710.

Cockburn, Mrs. Catherine. The Works of Mrs. Catherine Cockburn, Theological, Moral, Dramatic, and Poetical. Edited by Thomas Birch. Two volumes. London, 1751.

Collyer, Mrs. Mary. Felicia to Charlotte: Being Letters from a Young Lady in the Country to her Friend in Town. Vol. I, 1744. Vol. II. 1749.

—— A Christmas Box, Consisting of Moral Stories, adapted to the Capacities of Little Children and calculated to give them early impressions of Piety and Virtue. Two volumes. London, 1749.

Collyer, Mrs. Mary. The Death of Abel. (Translated from Gesner's Abel's Tod.) London, 1761.

Cooper, Mrs. Elizabeth. The Rival Widows, or The Fair Libertine. London, 1735.

—— The Muses Library; Or a Series of English Poetry from the Saxons to the Reign of King Charles II. Vol. I (all published). London, 1737.

D'Anvers, Mrs. Alicia. The Humours of Oxford. London, 1691.

Davies, Lady Eleanor. The Restitution of Prophecy; that Buried Talent to be revived. By the Lady Eleanor. London, 1651.

Davys, Mrs. Mary. The Reformed Coquet. London, 1724.

Delany, Mrs. Mary. The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mrs. Delany. Edited by Lady Llanover. First series, three volumes, 1861. Second series, three volumes, 1862.

Elstob, Elizabeth. An English-Saxon Homily on the Birthday of St. Gregory. Translated into Modem English with Notes. London, 1709. William Pickering, Leicester, 1839.

—— Essay on Glory. (Translated from Mademoiselle de Scudery.)

—— Rudiments of Grammar for the English-Saxon Tongue. London, 1715.

—— A Saxon Homilarium. (Only five printed at Oxford about 1717.)

Fage, Mary. Fame's Roule. London, 1687.

Falkland, Lady Elizabeth. The Tragedy of Mariam the Faire Queene of Jewry. London, 1613. Malone Society Reprint, Oxford, 1914.

Fanshawe, Lady Ann. The Memoirs of Ann, Lady Fanshaw, 1600-1672. London, 1907.

Fell, Mrs. Margaret. Women's Speaking Justified Proved and Allowed of by the Scriptures. London, 1666. [One of ten tracts written 1665-68.]

Fielding, Sarah. The Adventures of David Simple in Search of a Faithful Friend. London, 1744.

—— Familiar Letters between the Characters of David Simple. London, 1747.

—— The Governess; Or the Little Female Academy. London, 1749. Seventh edition, 1760.

Fiennes, Celia. Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary. London, 1888.

Gethin, Lady Grace. Reliquiæ Gethinianæ. London, 1696 (?).

Giffard, Lady Martha. The Life and Correspondence (1664-1722) of Martha, Lady Giffard. Edited by Julia G. Lange with Preface by Judge Parry. Allen and Sons, London, 1911.

Glasse, Mrs. Hannah. The Art of Cookery made Plain and Easy. London, 1747. Ninth edition, 1759.

Gournay, Marie de Jars de. L'Egalité des Hommes et des Femmes. Paris, 1604.

Grierson, Mrs. Constantia. Terence. London, 1727.

—— Tacitus. London, 1730.

Halkett, Lady Jane. Works. Edinburgh, 1701.

—— Autobiography. Camden Society Publications. New Series. Vol. 13. 1875-76.

Harley, Lady Brilliana. Letters 1638-1640. Camden Society Publications. Vol. 58. 1853-54.

Hopton, Mrs. Susanna. Daily Devotions. London, 1673.

—— Letter to Father Tuberville. In Dr. Hickes's Controversial Letters, 1710.

—— Meditations on the Six Days of Creation. London, 1717.

—— Meditations on the Life of Christ. London, 1717.

Hume, Anna. The Triumph of Love, Chastity, and Death. (Translated from Petrarch.) London, 1644.

Hutchinson, Mrs. Lucy. Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson. Bell and Sons, London, 1899.

James, Mrs. Eleanor. Vindication of the Church of England. London, 1687.

—— Mrs. James's Apology. London, 1694.

—— Reasons humbly presented to the Lords Spiritual and Temporal. London, 1715.

Jocelyn, Elizabeth. The Mother's Legacy to her Unborn Childe. Third edition, 1625. Reprinted, Blackwood's, 1852.

Jones, Mary. Poems. (In Eminent Ladies.)

Kello, Esther. Les Proverbes de Salomon (Written in forty hands). 1599.

Kent, Elizabeth Grey, the Countess of. A Choice Manuall, or Rare and Select Receipts in Physick and Chyrurgery. Second edition, 1653. A second part, The True Gentlewoman's Delight, reached a nineteenth edition in 1687.

Killigrew, Anne. Poems. London, 1686.

"Lady, A." Essay in Defence of the Female Sex.... In a Letter to a Lady by a Lady. London, 1696. Fourth edition, 1791.

Lead, Mrs. Jane. A Fountain of Gardens Watered by the Rivers of divine pleasure. Four volumes. London, 1701.

Leapor, Mary. Poems on Several Occasions. London, 1748.

Lennox, Mrs. Charlotte. Poems. London, 1747.

—— The Life of Harriot Stuart. London, 1751.

—— The Female Quixote. London, 1752.

Lennox, Mrs. Charlotte. Shakespeare. Illustrated. London, 1753-54.

—— Memoirs of the Countess Berci. Two volumes. London, 1756.

—— Memoirs of M. de Bethune, Duke of Sully. Three volumes. London, 1756.

—— Memoirs for the History of Madame de Maintenon. London, 1757.

—— Henrietta. London, 1758. [Dramatized as The Sister, 1769.]

—— Brumoy's Greek Theatre. London, 1759.

—— Sophia. Two volumes. London, 1762.

—— Euphemia. Four volumes. London, 1790.

Lincoln, The Countess of. The Countess of Lincoln's Nurserie. London, 1628.

Major, Elizabeth. Eliza's Babes or The Virgin's Offerings. London, 1652.

—— Honey on the Rod. London, 1656.

Makin, Mrs. Bathsua. An Essay to Revive the Ancient Education of Gentlewomen. London, 1673.

Manly, Mrs. Arabella. An Essay on the Invention of Samplers. [Written before 1709. Published in the Works of Dr. W. King. Vol. II, 1776.]

Manly, Mrs. de la Rivière. The Lost Lover. 1696.

—— The Royal Mischief. 1696.

—— Secret Memoirs and Manners of Several Persons of Quality of Both Sexes from the New Atalantis, an Island in the Mediterranean. Four volumes. 1709. Sixth edition, 1720.

—— The Adventures of Rivella. London, 1714.

—— Lucius. London, 1717.

—— The Power of Love. In seven volumes. London, 1720.

—— A Stage-Coach Journey to Exeter. London, 1725.

Marinelli, Lucrezia. Della Nobiltà ed Eccelenza della Donne e delli Difetti e Maneamenti degli Uomini. Venice, 1608.

Masham, Lady Damaris. Discourse concerning the Love of God. London, 1696.

—— Occasional Thoughts in Reference to a Virtuous Christian Life. London, 1700.

Masters, Mary. Poems. [In Eminent Ladies.]

Melville, Elizabeth. Ane Godlie Dream. 1603. [David Laing's Early Metrical Tales, 1826.]

Monck, The Hon. Mrs. Marinda. Poems and Translations on Several Occasions. London, 1716.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Edited by Lord Wharncliffe. Two volumes. Bell and Sons, 1887.

Newcastle, Margaret, Duchess of. Philosophical Fancies. London, 1653.

—— Philosophical Fancies. London, 1653.

—— Poems and Fancies. London, 1653.

—— The World's Olio. London, 1655.

—— Philosophical and Physical Opinions. London, 1655.

—— Nature's Pictures drawn by Fancie's Pencil to the Life [Including an autobiography]. London, 1656.

—— Orations. London, 1662.

—— Plays. London, 1662, 1668.

—— Sociable Letters. London, 1664.

—— Observations upon Experimental Philosophy. London, 1666.

—— The Life of William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle. 1667.

—— Letters and Poems. 1676.

—— A True Relation of the Birth, Breeding, and Life of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle. Written by Herself. Edited by Sir Egerton Brydges. Private Press of Lee Priory, 1814.

—— The Lives of William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle, and of his Wife Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle. Edited by Mark Antony Lower. London, 1872.

—— The Life of William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle, to which is added, The True Relation of My Birth, Breeding and Life by Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle. Edited by C. H. Firth. Scribner's, 1886.

Newcome, Mrs. Enquiry into the Evidences of the Christian Religion. 1728.

Nine Muses, The. The Nine Muses; or Poems written by as many Ladies on the death of the late famous John Dryden, Esq. London, 1700.

Osborne, Dorothy. Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-1654. Edited by E. A. Parry. Dodd, Mead and Co., 1888.

Osborne, Mrs. Sarah. Political and Social Letters of a Lady of the Eighteenth Century. Dodd, Mead and Co., 1891.

Parr, Queen Catherine. Queen Katherine Parre's lamentations of a sinner. London, 1548.

Philips, Joan. Female Poems on Several Occasions. London, 1679.

Philips, Mrs. Katherine. Poems by the most deservedly Admired Mrs. Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda. London, 1678.

—— Letters from Orinda to Poliarchus. London, 1705.

—— Selections from the Poems of Katherine Philips, "The Matchless Orinda." Only 250 copies printed. J. R. Tutin, at Cottingham near Hull, 1904.

Pilkington, Mrs. Lætitia. Memoirs of Mrs. Lætitia Pilkington. Two volumes. London, 1748. Third edition in 1754.

—— The Celebrated Mrs. Pilkington's Jests. London, 1751.

Primrose, Lady Diana. A Chain of Pearl. London, 1630.

Richmond, Margaret, Countess of. The mirrour of golde for the sinfull soule. London, 1509.

Rowe, Mrs. Elizabeth. Poems on Several Occasions, written by Philomela. London, 1696.

—— Miscellaneous Works in Prose and Verse. Two volumes. London, 1739.

Russell, Rachel, Lady. The Letters of Rachel, Lady Russell. Two volumes. London, 1853. First edition, 1773.

Schurman, Anna van. De ingenii muliebris ad doctrinam et meliores litteras aptitudine. Leyden, 1641. [Translated into English by Clement Barksdale as The Learned Maid, or Whether a Maid may be a Scholar. London, 1659.]

Scott, Mrs. Sarah. Millenium Hall. By a Gentleman on his Travels. London, 1762, 1764.

Seymour, Anne, Margaret, and Jane. A Century of Distichs on the Death of Queen Margaret of Navarre. London, 1550.

Sharp, Mrs. Jane. The Midwives' Book, Or The Whole Art of Midwifery discovered. London, 1671, 1690.

Sidney, Mary. Translation of Du Plessis Mornay's Discours de la Vie et de la Mort. London, 1593.

—— Translation of Garnier's Marc Antonie. London, 1592.

—— Metrical Version of the Psalms. (First printed by Robert Triphook in 1823.)

"Sophia Pamphlets": Woman not Inferior to Man.... By Sophia, a Person of Quality. 1739. Woman's superior Excellence over Man, or a Reply to the author of a late treatise entitled Man Superior to Woman. 1740. The three pamphlets published as Beauty's Triumph, 1757.

Talbot, Catharine. The Works of Miss Catharine Talbot. Edited by Miss Elizabeth Carter. London, 1770.

—— The Works of the late Miss Catharine Talbot. Edited by the Rev. Montagu Pennington. London, 1812.

Thomas, Mrs. Elizabeth. Poems. London, 1722, 1726, 1727.

—— Pylades and Corinna. Two volumes. London, 1731.

Warwick, Mary Boyle, The Countess of. Diary. [The portion from 1666 to 1672 published by Religious Tract Society. 1847.]

—— Some Specialities in the Life of M. Warwicke. Percy Society Publications. Vol. XXII.

Weston, Elizabeth Jane (or Joan). Works. (Printed by Georg Martin von Baldhoven at Frankfort-on-the-Oder. 1602.)

Wharton, Lady Anne. Verses by the Excellent Poetess, Mrs. Wharton. London, 1688.

White, Mrs. Elizabeth. The Experiences of God's gracious dealing with Mrs. Elizabeth White. London, 1671.

Winchilsea, Anne, Countess of. The Poems of Anne, Countess of Winchilsea. Edited by Myra Reynolds. The University of Chicago Press, 1903.

Woolley, Mrs. Hannah. The Queen-like Closet. 1696. (Eleventh edition.)

Wroth, Lady Mary. The Countess of Montgomerie's Urania. London, 1621.