ABSTRACT
First published in The Companion, I, 2 July 1828, pp. 374–84; see headnote above, pp. 49–50. It was partially reprinted in Men, Women, and Books, 2 vols (London: Smith, Elder, 1847), vol. ii, pp. 136–43. The present essay is the sixth in a seven-part series that featured Hunt’s commentary on Specimens of British Poetesses; selected and chronologically arranged (London: Rodd, 1825), an edition by Alexander Dyce (1798–1869; DNB). The series is one of Hunt’s most sustained and detailed considerations of British women writers. He returned to the subject of women writers in 1837 with Blue-Stocking Revels; or the Feast of the Violets (see Vol. 6, pp. 153–79).
