The Literary World
Writers of the Romantic Period (1785-1830)
Literature of the Romantic period emphasized feeling, heroism, and the return to nature.
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Jane Austen (born 1775, died 1817)
English novelist.
- Wrote Pride and Prejudice
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Dorothy Wordsworth (born 1771, died 1855)
English writer.
- Wrote The Alfoxden Journal
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Mary Wollstonecraft (born 1759, died 1797)
English writer and feminist. Mother of author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.
- Wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Women as a response to Jeanne Jaque''s argument that women exist to please men
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (born 1797, died 1851)
English novelist. Married to poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.
- Wrote Frankenstein
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Anna Laetitia Barbauld (born 1743, died 1825)
English poet.
- Wrote ''''To a Little Invisible Being Who Is Expected Soon to Become Visible''''
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Joanna Baillie (born 1762, died 1851)
Scottish playwright and poet.
- Wrote The Beacon
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Felicia Dorothea Hemans (born 1793, died 1835)
English poet.
- Wrote ''''England''s Dead''''
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Fanny Burney (born 1752, died 1840)
English novelist.
- Wrote Evelina
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Elizabeth Inchbald (born 1753, died 1821)
English actress, playwright and novelist.
- Wrote A Simple Story
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Ann Radcliffe (born 1764, died 1823)
English writer of extremely popular Gothic novels.
- Wrote The Mysteries of Udolpho
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Susanna Rowson (died 1824)
English-American actress, playwright, novelist and educator.
- Wrote the first American bestseller, Charlotte Temple
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Annette, Baroness von Droste-Hülshoff (born 1797, died 1848)
German poet and short-story writer.
- Wrote Das geistliche Jahr (''''The Spiritual Year'''')
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Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda (born 1814, died 1873)
Cuban poet, playwright and novelist.
- Wrote the play Alfonso Munio
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Laure, duchesse d'Abrantès Junot (born 1784, died 1838)
French noblewoman and associate of Napoleon, who wrote a famous memoir of some of France's most turbulent years.
- Wrote Mémoires sur Napoléon, la Révolution, le Consulat, l''Empire et la Restauration
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