Jane A Spencer

A Simple Story (Oxford World's Classics)

When Miss Milner announces her passion for her guardian, a Catholic priest, she breaks through the double barrier of his religious vocation and 18th-century British society's standards of proper womanly behavior. Like other women writers of her time, Elizabeth Inchbald concentrates on the question o...

Aphra Behn's Afterlife

Aphra Behn, now becoming recognized as a major Restoration figure, is especially significant as an early example of a successful professional woman writer. This book analyses her reception as a poet, a novelist, and a dramatist, demonstrating her far-reaching influence on eighteenth-century literatu...

The Rise of the Woman Novelist: From Aphra Behn to Jane Austen

Feminist studies of women's writing have tended to concentrate on writers of the 19th and 20th centuries. This book, which examines women novelists from Aphra Behn to Fanny Burney, is intended to redress the balance and to argue for the crucial importance of the 18th century to developing female ide...

The Rover and Other Plays

The Rover, the Feigned Courtesans, the Lucky Chance, the Emperor of the Moon

The Rover, the Feigned Courtesans, the Lucky Chance, the Emperor of the Moon

Aphra Behn's Afterlife

Literary Relations: Kinship And the Canon 1660-1830

Elizabeth Gaskell

The Rise of the Woman Novelist: From Aphra Behn to Jane Austen

The Naked Gun 2½ The Smell of Fear

…Singer Colleen Fitzpatrick (known to modern-rock fans as Vitamin C) appeared on camera as a saloon singer at a sad-sack restaurant called the Blue Note, to which a depressed Detective Lieutenant Drebin repairs after seeing former girlfriend Jane Spencer being wooed by villain Quentin Hapsbur...