Nonconformist Women Writers, 1720-1840, Part I Vol 4

PART II VOLUME 4 Poetry and Correspondence of Mary Scott, Poetry of Hannah Towgood Wakeford, Poetry of Mary Steele Wakeford, Poetry of Marianna Attwater Poetry of Jane Attwater, Poetry and Periodical Prose of Elizabeth Coltman. Introduction I. Published Poetry 1. To Miss Aikin, on Reading her Poems (1774) 2. The Female Advocate; A Poem. Occasioned by Reading Mr. Duncombe’s Feminead (1774) 3. Verses Addressed to Miss Seward, on the Publication of her Monody on Major André (1783) 4. Messiah: A Poem, in Two Parts (1788) 5. Hymn: Family Religion (1795) 6. Memorial to Jonas Hanway, Philanthropist (1844) II. Unpublished Poetry 7. On Friendship Addressed to Sylvia, 1770 8. To Sylvia, 1770 9. Written in Mary Steele’s Friendship Book, 1773 10. A Poetic Description of John Taylor (c. 1777) 11. A Poetic Description of Herself (c. 1777) Hymns 12. Christ our Example 13. Renouncing the World 14. A Hymn of Praise in the Spring 15. A Hymn of Praise to God on the 5th of November 16. Hymn 17. Salvation through Faith. I Peter 1.9 18. God above all Praise 19. An Unchangeable God in Covenant the Soul’s Support under the Hidings of his Face 20. Resignation to the Divine Will 21. True Happiness 22. The Soul’s Victory over its Spiritual Enemies alone from God 23. Turning from the Creature to the Creator 24. The Vanity of the World and the Weakness of the Human Mind 25. A Hymn of Praise to God as the God of Nature and Grace 26. That God is a Hearer of Prayer proved from Reason, Revelation, and Experience. Psalm 65.2 27. A Consciousness of God as Omniscient and Almighty the Grand Incitement to Religion and Vigorous Endeavours af er Perfection. Genesis 17.5 28. The Justice and Tremendousness of the Curse denounced against those that love not the Lord Jesus Christ. I Corinthians 16.22 29. God the Refuge of his People in Seasons of Distress suited to a Sermon on Psalm 28.7 30. Committing the Soul to God in well doing with Hope of his accepting the Trust. Psalm 31.5 31. The Woeful Degeneracy of the Human Race. Psalm 55.23 32. A Hymn of Praise for Temporal and Spiritual Mercies 33. Pardon and Peace through a Redeemer’s Blood 34. Acknowledging the Justice of God in the Severest Dispensations of Providence yet Pleading for Mercy 35. A Hymn for my Dear Father’s Use, on his Recovery from a Dangerous Illness. Compos’d at his Desire 36. Another. Psalm. 103 Psalm 116 37. A Hymn of Thanksgiving for my Dear Father’s Recovery. Psalm 116 38. An Evening Hymn 39. I Chronicles 29.11–14 40. On a Day Appointed for General Fasting and Prayer III. Poems Addressed to Mary Scott by William Steele IV 41. To Mira 42. [While others rove o’er fancy’s fairy maze] Poetry of Hannah Towgood Wakeford 43. Verses wrote by Mrs. Hannah Wakeford, only Daughter of the Revd Mr. Towgood, of Exeter, on Occasion of receiving a Mourning Ring some months before her own Death, at the Funeral of Mrs. Hannah Wakeford, her Husband’s Grandmother, and found after her Decease in her own Hand-writing 44. A New Year’s Midnight Reflection. By a Lady 45. An Anigma 46. Another 47. Sent in the Beginning of a Letter to Aurelia 48. Another 49. Soliloquy 50. Soliloquy 51. Meditation Poetry of Mary Steele Wakeford ‘Poems on Devotional Subjects’ 52. [Omnipotent Creator, gracious God] 53 [My infant Days, my Childhood past] 54. A Reflection the past Year December 3, 1748 55. On Dr. Young’s Night Thoughts (1748) 56. [Farewell to Life, farewell to pain and woe] 57. [Aminta, though my Eyes ne’er saw thy beauties] 58. [Were I to measure Earth and sea] 59. Isaiah 55.6 & 7 60. [My trembling drooping spirit faints] 61. [If love’s constraining pow’r can warm] 62. [My sovereign Lord, my gracious God] 63. [Almighty Lord to thee I life] 64. [ Jesus and didst thou condescend] (1769) Miscellaneous Poems 65. A Motto for a Watch 66. Another 67. To Theodosia (1769) 68. To Silvia 69. Silvia’s Rattle (1769) Three Riddles 70. 1st Riddle [If you wish for a riddle to puzzle your wit on] 71. 2nd Riddle by the same [A riddle of Riddles as odd as can be] 72. 3rd Riddle [Torn from the bowels of the fruitful Earth] Poetry of Marianna Attwater 73. On Reading Fordyce’s Sermons to Young Women (1768) 74. Character of Fribble (1768) 75. To Lady Andrews with a present of Netting (1768) 76. Ode to Peace (1768) 77. At the End of a Pockett Book for the Year 1768 78. Wrote in the Beginning of a Pockett Book for 1769 79. To Serena on her Birth Day in the year 1769 80. “The Rose – A Simile” to Serena (1769) 81. On Reading (1769) 82. [Writer unequall’d in the art to please] (1769) 183. On May (1769) 84. A Sunday Morning’s Reflection (1769) 85. Serious Reflections (1769) 86. The Willing Captive (1769) 87. The Complaint (1770) 88. [What Beauteous Form is that in simple dress] (1770) 89. Cleora while Chearful and Gay (1770) 90. [Of [Eden’s vallies] this description find] (1770) 91. On a Small Branch, put by for a Rod, in a Village School Room 92. On Absence Poetry of Jane Attwater 93. From the Diary, April 1770 94. From the Diary, 30 December 1770 95. Another, from 30 December 1770 96. Lines addressed to Mary Steele, 5 May 1773 97. From the Diary, 31 March 1776 98. On the Death of James Gibbs Esq who was killed by a fall from his horse, May the 31 1779, aged 21 – Captain of the Light Infantry in the Wiltshire Militia 99. From the Diary, 16 October 1785 100. Lines addressed to her Nephew, Philip Whitaker, 1786 101. From the Diary, 23 September 1787 102. From a Letter to her Brother, Gay Thomas Attwater, December 1788 103. From the Diary, 26 May 1791, written just af er her Miscarriage 104. From the Diary, 16 July 1794, on the first Birthday of her Daughter, Anna 105. Epitaph for Annajane Theodosia Blatch 106. In Memory of her Daughter, Anna (c. 1811) 107. To her Sister, Marianna 108. Hymn on God’s Love 109. January 1st 1818 110. To Jane Attwater Blatch [from her niece] Poetry of Elizabeth Coltman Introduction 111. To Miss Martha Steele 112. To Miss Anne Steele 113. Impromptu to the Basket sent to Miss [Mary] Steele 114. To Mrs. Harries, On receiving a Beautiful Vase for Flowers ornamented with a Picture of Abra 115. Written by Eliza, with a Fan to her Friend Miss A— 116. Written in a Volume of Rousseau’s Works 117. Enjoyment 118. In Memory of Mary Steele 119. [There is a language in all Nature’s forms] Two Poems from the Third Generation 120. The Noises of Bath (1806) 121. Mancumium (c. 1815) Periodical Prose of Elizabeth Coltman 1. Journal, written during a Hasty Ramble to the Lakes (1800) 2. Memoir, Mrs. John Coltman (1802) Correspondence of Mary Scott and Related Letters 1–27. Letters Editorial Notes

These volumes will present, in some cases for the first time, the lives and works of a coterie of Nonconformist women writers from the West Country