Drama
by Susanna Centlivre
The Busie Body
by John Gay
The Beggar's Opera (including musical score)
by Elizabeth Inchbald
Lovers’ Vows: A Play in Five Acts, From the German of Kotzebue
by Richard Sheridan
The Rivals
Poetry
by Aphra Behn
"The Disappointment"
"Love Arm'd"
"The Willing Mistress"
by Anne Finch
"The Spleen"
by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
"Epistle from Mrs. Yonge to Her Husband"
"The Reasons that Induced Dr. S. to Write The Lady's Dressing Room"
by Alexander Pope
An Essay on Man, Epistle 1
"The Rape of the Lock"
by Jonathan Swift
"The Lady's Dressing Room"
Prose
by Mary Astell
Excerpts from Some Reflections on Marriage
by Aphra Behn
The Fair Jilt
The History of the Nun
Oroonoko"The Unfortunate Happy Lady"
"The Wandering Beauty"
by Frances Burney
Evelina: or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World
Letter from Frances Burney to her sister Esther about her mastectomy without anaesthetic, 1812
by Daniel Defoe
Moll Flanders
Roxana
by Madame de Lafayette
The Princess of Cleves
by Oliver Goldsmith, 1730-1774 (headnote available)
from "The Deserted Village"
by Susannah Gunning
Barford Abbey
by Eliza Haywood
Fantomina
Love in Excess; Or, the Fatal Enquiry
by Elizabeth Inchbald
A Simple Story
by Charlotte Lennox
The Female Quixote (1752)
by Ann Radcliffe (headnote availale)
"An Address to Protestant Dissenters"
The Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents
by Samuel Richardson
Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded
by Jonathan Swift
Gulliver's Travels
"A Modest Proposal"
by Horace Walpole
The Castle of Otranto
by John Wesley (headnote available)
"The Almost Christian"