This anthology of the works of 22 women authors aims to reclaim the tradition of women's writing in England during the period, and helps to restore this tradition to its rightful place in the present-day canon of late 17th- and 18th-century English literature. This book contains the complete works by Mary Astell, Joanna Baillie, Anna Barbauld, Aphra Behn, Elizabeth Carter, Mary Chudleigh, Jane Collier, Hannah Cowley, Judith Drake, Maria Edgworth, Sarah Egerton, Margaret Fell, Anne Finch, Mary Wortley Montagu, Hannah More, Sarah Pennington, Katherine Philips, Elizabeth Rowe, Rachel Russell, Catherine Talbot, Elizabeth Tallot, and Mary Wollstonecroft.