Nonconformist Women Writers, 1720–1840, Part II vol 8

PART II VOLUME 8 Diary and Meditations of Mrs John Walrond Introduction 1. Diary, c. 1699–1739 Poetry, Prose, Letters and Selections from the Diary of Anne Cator Steele I. Poetry 1. [Retire my Soul, exert thy pow’rs] 2. [T e absence of Lovers is tedious they say] 3. [May I, dear lady, brief y speak to you] 4. Hymn on Colossians 3:2 II. Prose Meditations 1. Draw me we will run after Thee 2. Gratitude to God for Peculiar Favours 3. Anonymous Spiritual Autobiography, copied by Anne Cator Steele III. Correspondence 1–9. Letters IV. Diary Selections 1. Diary, 1730–1860 Letters, Prose and Poetry of Hannah Towgood Wakeford Introduction I. Correspondence 1–6. Letters from Amynta to Aurelia II. Prose Meditations 1. Meditation I 2. Meditation II 3. Meditation III 4. Meditation IV 5. Meditation V 6. Meditation VI 7. Meditation VII III. Sermon Notes 1. I Cor. 1. 9. God is faithfull IV. Poetry 1. On Friendship 2. Death Impartial 3. To her Friend Camilla 4. T e Vanity of Wishing 5. General Hymn of Praise for Creation 6. Hymn 7. Soliloquy I 8. Soliloquy II 9. Soliloquy III 10. Soliloquy IV 11. Soliloquy V 12. Soliloquy VI Prose Writings of Jane Attwater Blatch Introduction I. Meditations and Reflections 1. Jane Attwater’s self-composed funeral oration (c. mid–late 1770s) 2. Meditation on the death of her mother, 26 August 1785 3. “Acquaint Thyself with Him & be at Peace” 4. “Jesus Wept” 1788 – April 8th 5. Reflection written 1789, at Bodenham 6. Reflection, 4 July 1790 17. July 25th 1790 “For He knoweth our frame & remembereth we are but dust” 8. John 17 & 15 “I pray not that thou wouldst take them out of the world but that thou wouldst keep them from the Evil” 9. A Thought on Humility II. Correspondence 1–35. Letters III. Diary Selections 1. Diary, 1767–1833 Diary of Frances Barrett Ryland Introduction 31. Diary, 1789–1806 Diary of Elizabeth Horsey Saffery Introduction 1. Diary, March 1797–15 April 1798 Diary of Sophia Williams Introduction 1. Diary, 9 June 1812–June 1817 Fragment of the Diary of Caroline Attwater Whitaker Introduction 1. Diary, August–September 1820 Diary of Anne Andrews Whitaker Introduction 1. Diary, 1795–9, 1839–51 Editorial Notes Index

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