ABSTRACT
This chapter presents some of the reviews of the works of romantic women writers which were published in the Scots Magazine. The writers whose works were reviewed include Anna Matilda, Anne Burke, Henrietta Colebrooke, Hannah Cowley, Marguerite Daubenton, and Jean Marishall. On Marshall's works, the review says that novel-readers do not read for instruction, but for amusement; that kind of amusement which abstracts their attention from their own homely concerns, and carries them into the flowery regions of imagination, whence they return with reluctance to their own family affairs and connections. If the obligation which novel-writers are under to render their fictions agreeable, does no good to the superior classes in life, and, which is of much more importance, distracts the attention and perverts the judgement of the lower orders in society.
