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Author |
Barbauld, Mrs. Anna Laetitia (1743-1825). |
Title |
The Female speaker; or, miscellaneous pieces, in prose
and verse, selected from the best writers, and adapted to the use
of young women. |
Imprint |
J. Johnson & Co, 1811. |
Physical description |
Rebound in half tree calf, red label. xii, 421, [1] p. ; 18 cm |
Citation |
Jackson,
Romantic Poetry by Women, p. 83. |
Notes |
Signed on title : Hephzibah Smith. WPRP 129. |
Call number |
WPRP 129. |
Notes |
Includes Preface of the Editor. |
Epigraph |
none |
Online copies |
CU Digital Library |
Contents |
CONTENTS.
BOOK I.
BOOK II.
MORAL AND DIDACTIC PIECES.
Religion |
ECONOMY OF HUMAN LIFE. |
16 |
Woman |
ibid. |
17 |
Vice and Virtue |
FORDYCE. |
19 |
Moral Sexes |
ibid. |
22 |
Proof of a future State from Analogy |
ibid. |
23 |
View of the different Stages of Life |
ibid. |
26 |
On Marriage |
MRS. HANNAH MORE. |
27 |
Flavia and Miranda |
LAW’S CALL. |
28 |
Inconsistency |
ibid. |
36 |
CÊlia, a Character |
ibid. |
36 |
Conduct and Behaviour |
GREGORY. |
38 |
Female Economy |
MRS. HANNAH MORE. |
39 |
Female Accomplishments |
ibid. |
41 |
Family Duties |
MRS. CHAPONE. |
42 |
On Sensibility |
ibid. |
44 |
A Comparison |
POPE. |
46 |
On Politeness |
MISS TALBOT. |
46 |
On Temper |
POPE. |
49 |
Advice to a Lady |
LORD LYTTLETON. |
49 |
Government of the Temper |
MRS. CHAPONE. |
53 |
Insufficiency of Beauty |
POPE. |
55 |
Virtuous Love |
THOMSON. |
56 |
Beauty dependent on Sentiment |
ADVENTURER. |
57 |
On good Nature |
ibid. |
61 |
On Amusement |
FORDYCE. |
67 |
Dissipation of the rising Generation |
ibid. |
69 |
Thoughts on Death. |
REYNOLDS. |
70 |
On Vanity and Affectation |
LORD HALIFAX. |
71 |
On Family Management |
ibid. |
75 |
A Climax |
PRIOR. |
77 |
On Conversation |
DR. WATTS. |
79 |
Stella’s Birthday |
SWIFT. |
80 |
Recollections |
COWPER. |
82 |
On Beauty |
AKENSIDE. |
84 |
Il Latte |
JERNINGHAM. |
85 |
Trust in God |
YOUNG. |
87 |
On Memory |
ROGERS. |
88 |
Coming of the Messiah |
POPE. |
89 |
Objects of Prayer |
DR. JOHNSON. |
90 |
How to make the most of Life |
FAWCETT. |
91 |
Qualities requisite in a Wife |
DR. AIKIN. |
94 |
The Country favourable to Health |
ARMSTRONG. |
97 |
Address to the Deity |
MRS. BARBAULD. |
98 |
BOOK III.
NARRATIVE PIECES.
The Judgment of Rhadamanthus |
ADDISON. |
101 |
Vision of Theodore |
DR. JOHNSON. |
105 |
Story of La Roche |
MIRROR. |
120 |
The Folly of disputing upon Trifles. |
MISS EDGEWORTH. |
132 |
Comparison of Watches |
ibid. |
134 |
A Party of Pleasure |
RAMBLER. |
136 |
Story of Flavilla |
ADVENTURER. |
141 |
A domestic Incident |
ADVENTURER. |
159 |
Female Fortitude |
MELMOTH’S PLINY |
160 |
Pliny to his Wife |
ibid. |
163 |
Baucis and Philemon |
SWIFT. |
163 |
The Country Parson and his Wife |
WORLD. |
169 |
The Race of Fashion |
ibid. |
173 |
The Dolphin of Hippo |
MELMOTH’S PLINY. |
178 |
An economical Project |
DR. FRANKLIN. |
181 |
A Week in the Country |
WORLD. |
186 |
The Ephemera |
FREETHINKER. |
192 |
A Party at Vauxhall |
CONNOISSEUR. |
195 |
A Petition to those who have the Superintendency
of Education |
DR. FRANKLIN. |
201 |
BOOK IV.
DESCRIPTIVE AND PATHETIC.
Description of ancient Germany |
GIBBON. |
203 |
------------- -- Constantinople |
ibid. |
205 |
------------- -- Arabia |
ibid. |
211 |
The Horse and Camel |
ibid. |
212 |
Pillars of Sand in the Desert |
BRUCE’S TRAVELS. |
214 |
The Nile |
THOMSON. |
215 |
Breaking up of the Ice at Quebec |
MRS. BROOK. |
216 |
The Nightingale |
GOLDSMITH’S ANIMATED NATURE. |
217 |
The Lark |
ibid. |
218 |
The Farmyard |
THOMSON. |
218 |
North Cape |
ACERBI’S TRAVELS. |
219 |
Earthquake in Calabria |
GOLDSMITH’S ANIMATED NATURE. |
220 |
Progress of Sensations in the first Man |
BUFFON. |
224 |
Journey to Paris |
WORLD. |
228 |
The Cit’s Box. |
CONNOISSEUR. |
236 |
Lady Richard Russel |
|
240 |
Too Much and too Little |
WORLD. |
242 |
Execution of Mary Queen of Scotland. ROBERTSON’S
HISTORY OF SCOTLAND. |
|
243 |
The Indian Philosopher |
WATT’S LYRICS. |
247 |
Description of the First Pair |
MILTON. |
249 |
On the Marriage Tie |
ibid. |
250 |
The Patriot’s Elysium |
MONTGOMERY’S POEMS. |
251 |
To a Friend on his Marriage. |
ROGER’S PLEASURES OF MEMORY. |
252 |
Nausicaa |
POPE’S ODYSSEY. |
253 |
On Sensibility |
JERNINGHAM. |
254 |
My Mary |
COWPER. |
255 |
Few happy Matches |
WATT’S LYRICS. |
257 |
The First Housewife |
MILTON. |
259 |
The Lamb |
DYER’S FLEECE. |
259 |
Sheep-washing |
ibid. |
260 |
Buxton Wells |
DARWIN’S BOTANIC GARDEN. |
261 |
Elegy on revisiting the Scenes of early Life. |
FAWCETT’S POEMS. |
262 |
The Prospect. |
COWPER. |
265 |
The Woodman |
ibid. |
267 |
The deserted Female |
GOLDSMITH. |
267 |
The Rose |
COWPER. |
269 |
The Child of Sorrow |
LANGHORNE. |
269 |
The Balloon |
DARWIN’S BOTANIC GARDEN. |
270 |
May Day |
ibid. |
271 |
On a Tree cut in Paper |
WALLER. |
272 |
The Pleasures of the Country |
COWPER. |
272 |
A Comparison |
ibid. |
275 |
The Grasshopper |
COWLEY. |
275 |
The Contrast |
ibid. |
276 |
Baucis and Philemon |
GARTH’S OVID. |
278 |
The Female Coterie |
SWIFT. |
283 |
The Friseur |
BATH GUIDE. |
286 |
A Comparison |
POPE’S ILIAD. |
288 |
A Winter Piece |
DR. AIKIN. |
288 |
Maternal Love |
LUCY AIKIN. |
289 |
A Mother to her waking Infant |
|
290 |
Description of Italy |
ADDISON. |
292 |
A Prison Scene |
DRYDEN. |
292 |
Constancy |
PRIOR. |
293 |
Officious Love |
ibid. |
294 |
Monastic Gloom |
POPE. |
294 |
----------- Enthusiasm |
ibid. |
295 |
Jupiter and Europa |
GARTH’S OVID. |
295 |
Trees Characterized |
SPENCER. |
297 |
The Robin |
THOMSON. |
297 |
A Winter Evening |
COWPER. |
298 |
Address to the Creator |
SHAFTESBURY. |
300 |
Apostrophe to the Sun |
ibid. |
300 |
The Torrid and Frigid Zones |
ibid. |
301 |
Mountain Scenery |
ibid. |
303 |
BOOK V.
DIALOGUES.
Elder and younger Brother |
MILTON’S COMUS. |
305 |
Lady and Comus |
ibid. |
310 |
Lord and Lady Townly |
PROVOKED HUSBAND. |
314 |
Agib and Secander |
COLLINS. |
321 |
The Dirge |
GAY. |
323 |
Imogen and Pisanio |
SHAKESPEARE. |
328 |
Ferdinand and Miranda |
ibid. |
330 |
Portia and Brutus |
ibid. |
333 |
Orlando and Rosalind |
ibid. |
336 |
Lear and Cordelia |
ibid. |
340 |
Alicia and Jane Shore |
ROWE. |
342 |
Sterling and Mrs. Heidelberg |
CLANDESTINE MARRIAGE. |
346 |
Sterling, Lord Ogleby, and Canton |
ibid. |
347 |
Lord Ogleby, Sterling, Mrs. Heidelberg, Miss Sterling,
Fanny, and Canton. |
CLANDESTINE MARRIAGE. |
348 |
Calista and Sciolto |
ROWE. |
352 |
Lady Townly, Mrs. Trusty, and Poundage |
PROVOKED HUSBAND. |
355 |
Captain Absolute and Faulkland |
THE RIVALS. |
358 |
Katherine summoned before the High Commission Court |
SHAKESPEARE. |
365 |
Jaffier and Belvidera |
OTWAY. |
369 |
BOOK VI.
EPISTLES.
To the Rev. William Unwin |
COWPER. |
372 |
To the Same |
ibid. |
374 |
To Mrs. Cowper |
ibid. |
376 |
To the Rev. William Unwin |
ibid. |
377 |
To the Same |
ibid. |
380 |
To the Same |
ibid. |
382 |
To the Rev. John Newton |
ibid. |
385 |
To Lady Hesketh |
ibid. |
387 |
To the Same |
ibid. |
390 |
To the Same |
ibid. |
394 |
To the Same |
ibid. |
396 |
To the Same |
ibid. |
398 |
To the Same |
ibid. |
400 |
To the Same |
ibid. |
401 |
To the Rev. John Newton |
ibid. |
404 |
To Lady Hesketh |
ibid. |
406 |
To Mr. Walpole |
GRAY. |
408 |
To Mr. Wharton |
ibid. |
410 |
To Mr. Nicholls |
ibid. |
411 |
To the Countess of --------- |
LADY M. W. MONTAGUE. |
413 |
To the Lady R----- |
ibid. |
418 |
To the Same |
ibid. |
419 |
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