• The Female Convict

    She shrank from all, and her silent mood
    Made her wish only for solitude:
    Her eye sought the ground, as it could not brook,
    For innermost shame, on another’s to look;
    And the cheerings of comfort fell on her ear
    Like deadliest words, that were curses to hear!—
    She still was young, and she had been fair;
    But weather-stains, hunger, toil,...

    Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  • Female Piety and Virtue, an Ode

    As when the night its highest noon attains,

    And not a cloud o'ercasts the blue serene,

    The stars diffus'd through all th' etherial plains,

    And all array'd in living light are seen;


    So in this night of time what patterns rise,

    Rich in celestial lustres, to adorn,

    And bless our world, till from these...

  • The Female Right to Literature

    WHilst you, Athenia, with assiduous toil

    Reap the rich fruits of learning's fertile soil;

    Now search whate'er historick truth has shewn,

    And make the...

  • The feminead: or, Female genius

    SHALL lordly man, the theme of every lay,

    Usurp the Muse's tributary bay?

    In kingly state on Pindus' summit sit,
    ...