#1790s (long 1790s, best of) I don't teach this stuff myself -- just an enthusiast who hasn't yet got to Thomas Holcroft, Frances Burney or Burke's Reflections (for completeness -- it always pays to read the opposition). I include Cowper in my list as he was so widely read and published then, not so much now, and because the work is so good. I left off Anna Laetitia Barbauld from the first list because of word count -- she is totally on it, and Edgeworth will be when I read more.

People who teach BritEnglish writing of the #1790s, what do you teach? Leaving out the obvious (Austen, Blake, Wordsworth & Coleridge) my list wd go something like this:
William Godwin, Caleb Williams
Mary Wollstonecraft, Vindications + Letters written in Sweden etc
Charlotte Smith Poems + Desmond
Olaudah Equiano, Interesting Narrative
Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story
Mary Hays, Memoirs of Emma Courtney
Robert Bage, Hermsprong
William Cowper, Poems & Letters
#romanticism #C18Literature

It has taken me a long time to get to Mary Hays. Her novel (a lot based on life) is brilliant, fearless, philosophical (in dialogue with Rousseau, Wollstonecraft, Godwin (who appears as Mr Francis), Helvétius and many poets. It leaps right near to the top of my best of the #1790s, with Caleb Williams. Mémoires de Filles, by #AnnieErnaux, 2016 matches and also exceeds The Years. Read it pretty much in one go. #Memoir #C18 More on #MaryHays here: https://historia.3.nftest.nl/editorial/mary-hays-transforming-the-meaning-of-woolf-s-a-room-of-one-s-own/?fbclid=IwAR0hcAQ2G-rTFgm21EIkJm7tkOvFT2S4N48FsrBu4OQYmq98BFlVHveK4DY

A rare, and possibly one-of-a-kind, item in the OGS Archives. A two-year run (1798-1799) of the Philadelphia, PA printed newspaper Porcupine’s Gazette. This newspaper was politically aligned with the Federalists at the time. #archives #newspapers #18thcentury #federalists #philadelphia #porcupinesgazette #1790s #americanhistory #ogs @histodons

Jane Austen wrote Pride and Prejudice in ten months during 1796-7, she later did some editing before publication in 1813. Rereading the book, I was struck by the mention of a sash, very much a 1790s fashion rather than Regency, and that inspired us to make the #historyofdress film and set it in the year the book was written rather than published. Here is the link https://youtu.be/VT-ZGzhzS0o Directed by @NicoleLoven. Music by Chris Gordon. #JaneAusten #1790s #PrideAndPrejudice #indiefilm

Jane Austen wrote Pride and Prejudice in ten months during 1796-7, she later did some editing before publication in 1813. Rereading the book, I was struck by the mention of a sash, very much a 1790s fashion rather than Regency, and that inspired us to make the #historyofdress film and set it in the year the book was written rather than published. Here is the link https://youtu.be/VT-ZGzhzS0o Directed by @NicoleLoven. Music by Chris Gordon. #JaneAusten #1790s #PrideAndPrejudice #indiefilm

We are having an online premiere for our latest dress history film ‘Pride and Prejudice’ - it’s at 7:30 this evening. We had a lot of fun making this! #prideandprejudice #dresshistory #janeausten #1790s

Here's the premiere link: https://youtu.be/VT-ZGzhzS0o

We are having an online premiere for our latest dress history film ‘Pride and Prejudice’ - it’s at 7:30 this evening. We had a lot of fun making this! #prideandprejudice #dresshistory #janeausten #1790s

Pictured is a poster for the film: three women stand in a yellow-painted18th century room, dressed in the clothes of the 1790s.

Here's the premiere link: https://youtu.be/VT-ZGzhzS0o

I have some early starts this week. We film at the weekend and I am just finishing the final garment - a 1790s men’s coat. #costumier #1790s #sewing