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British Women Poets of the Romantic Era: An Anthology

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Forget the myth about women being subjugated into passive, quiet existences, in the past. There are more British women writers in these pages than you ever knew existed, and they write with elegance, aplomb, craft, style, and wit. Educated ladies, all. Most of them wrote while living a full life, having children, entertaining guests, participating in political and literary discussion groups, and, in short, contributing to the world in which they lived. The introduction to each author is enlightening and informative, and the poetry in many cases equal, in my opinion, to the better known writings of the male Romantic poets of the day. Perhaps the biggest take-away you'll get is that "lesser-known" does not mean lesser quality.