ABSTRACT
This chapter presents some of the reviews of the works of romantic women writers which were published in the New London Magazine. The writers whose works were reviewed include Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Aphra Behn, Frances Brooke, Susanna Centlivre, Charlotte Sophia-Queen of England, and Hannah Cowley. The first publication of Barbauld contains some pieces which have a smoothness and harmony equal to that of our best poets: with a justness of thought and vigour of imagination which would lose no credit by a comparison with the greatest names in English literature. The excellence of these poems was immediately acknowledged by the world. Brooke's 'The Excursion,’ was a novel which was the vehicle by which she exhibited to the public her complaints and anger against the King of Drury.
