The Father and Daughter With Dangers of Coquetry

, by Opie, Amelia Alderson; King, Shelley; Pierce, John Benjamin; Pierce, John Benjamin

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ISBN: 9781551111872 | 155111187X
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Copyright: 1/1/2003

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This Broadview edition combines Amelia Opie's "The Father and Daughter", one of the most widely read novels of the early nineteenth century, and her first novel, "Dangers of Coquetry" (1790), which also addresses issues of female sexuality and the social construction of gender.

Acknowledgements

(1)

Introduction

(41)

Amelia Alderson Opie: A Brief Chronology

(5)

A Note on the Texts

(2)

The Father and Daughter

(124)

Dangers of Coquetry

183

(74)

Appendix A: Extracts from Amelia Opie's Letters

257

(6)

Appendix B: Reviews of Dangers of Coquetry and The Father and Daughter

263

(6)

1. Reviews of Dangers of Coquetry

263

(1)

i. The European Magazine (May 1790)

263

(1)

ii. Critical Review (September 1790)

263

(1)

iii. The English Review (March 1791)

264

(1)

2. Reviews of The Father and Daughter

264

(5)

i. The Critical Review, or Annals of Literature (May 1802)

264

(1)

ii. The Monthly Review; or Literary Journal (May 1801)

265

(1)

iii. The European Magazine (September 1801)

266

(1)

iv. The Edinburgh Review (October 1802)

266

(3)

Appendix C: Contemporary Responses to The Father and Daughter

269

(4)

1. Thomas Robinson to Henry Crabb Robinson, 31 July 1801

269

(1)

2. Mrs. Thomas Clarkson to R.E. Garnham, 20 May 1802

269

(1)

3. From ``Mrs. Opie,'' The European Magazine, and London Review (May 1803)

269

(1)

4. From The Gentleman's Magazine (August 1806)

270

(2)

5. From ``Mrs. Opie,'' The Ladies' Monthly Museum (February 1817)

272

(1)

Appendix D: L'Agnese

273

(14)

1. From Agnes; A Serio-Comic Opera, in Two Acts

273

(9)

2. Reviews of L'Agnese

282

(5)

i. The Times, 16 May 1817

282

(1)

ii. The Times, 19 May 1817

283

(3)

iii. The Harmonicon, a Journal of Music (1830)

286

(1)

Appendix E: Smiles and Tears

287

(13)

1. From Mrs. C. Kemble, Smiles and Tears; or, The Widow's Strategem (1815)

287

(7)

2. Reviews of Smiles and Tears

294

(6)

i. The Times, 13 December 1815

294

(2)

ii. Theatrical Inquisitor, and Monthly Mirror (1815)

296

(2)

iii. British Lady's Magazine, I January 1816

298

(2)

Appendix F: The Lear of Private Life

300

(10)

Appendix G: Songs and Airs

310

(11)

1. ``A Hindustani Girl's Song''

311

(2)

2. ``A Mad Song''

313

(4)

3. ``The Orphan Boy's Tale''

317

(4)

Appendix H: Chastity

321

(9)

1. From Hannah More, Essays on Various Subjects, ... (1777)

321

(2)

2. Catharine Macaulay, from Letter XXIV, Chastity in Letters on Education (1790)

323

(2)

3. From William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1798)

325

(1)

4. From Hannah More, Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education (1799)

326

(4)

Appendix I: Coquetry

330

(12)

1. Joseph Addison, The Spectator, 22 January 1712

330

(2)

2. Catherine Jemmat, ``The Lady's Resolve'' (1762)

332

(1)

3. From Memoirs of a Coquet; or the History of Miss Harriot Airy (1765)

333

(3)

4. Catharine Macaulay, Letter XXIII, Coquettry in Letters on Education (1790)

336

(3)

5. From Lady's Monthly Museum (June 1799)

339

(3)

Appendix J: Madness

342

(21)

1. From Cecilia Lucy Brightwell, Memorials of the Life of Amelia Opie (1854)

342

(4)

2. ``Proposals for the establishment of a Lunatic Asylum ...'' with Amelia Opie's letter to Joseph John Gurney, 8 August 1939

346

(2)

3. From William Battie, M.D., A Treatise on Madness (1758)

348

(5)

4. From John Monro, M.D., Remarks on Dr. Battie's Treatise on Madness (1758)

353

(2)

5. From William Cullen, First Lines of the Practice of Physic (1788)

355

(2)

6. From Andrew Harper, A Treatise on the Real Cause and Cure of Insanity (1789)

357

(6)

Appendix K: Substantive Variants in The Father and Daughter

363

(5)

Select Bibliography

368

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