18th Century

Drama

The Beggar's Opera, painting

by Susanna Centlivre

The Busie Body (search in COVE Texts)

by John Gay

The Beggar's Opera, including musical score (search in COVE Texts)

by Elizabeth Inchbald

Lovers’ Vows: A Play in Five Acts, From the German of Kotzebue (search in COVE Texts)

by Richard Sheridan

The Rivals (search in COVE Texts)

Poetry

by Aphra Behn

"The Disappointment" (search in COVE Texts)
"Love Arm'd" (search in COVE Texts)
"The Willing Mistress" (search in COVE Texts)

by Anne Finch

"The Spleen" (search in COVE Texts)

by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

"Epistle from Mrs. Yonge to Her Husband" (search in COVE Texts)
"The Reasons that Induced Dr. S. to Write The Lady's Dressing Room" (search in COVE Texts)

by Alexander Pope

An Essay on Man, Epistle 1 (search in COVE Texts)
"The Rape of the Lock" (search in COVE Texts)

by Jonathan Swift

"The Lady's Dressing Room" (search in COVE Texts)

Prose

by Mary Astell

Excerpts from Some Reflections on Marriage (search in COVE Texts)

by Aphra Behn

The Fair Jilt (search in COVE Texts)
The History of the Nun (search in COVE Texts)
Oroonoko (search in COVE Texts)
Aphra Behn, painting"The Unfortunate Happy Lady" (search in COVE Texts)
"The Wandering Beauty" (search in COVE Texts)

by Frances Burney

Evelina: or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World (search in COVE Texts)
Letter from Frances Burney to her sister Esther about her mastectomy without anaesthetic, 1812 (search in COVE Texts)

by Daniel Defoe

Moll Flanders (search in COVE Texts)
Roxana (search in COVE Texts)

by Madame de Lafayette

The Princess of Cleves (search in COVE Texts)

by Oliver Goldsmith, 1730-1774 (headnote available)

from "The Deserted Village" (search in COVE Texts)

by Susannah Gunning

Barford Abbey (search in COVE Texts)

by Eliza Haywood

Fantomina (search in COVE Texts)
Love in Excess; Or, the Fatal Enquiry (search in COVE Texts)

by Elizabeth Inchbald

A Simple Story (search in COVE Texts)

by Charlotte Lennox

The Female Quixote, 1752 (search in COVE Texts)

by Ann Radcliffe (headnote availale)

"An Address to Protestant Dissenters" (search in COVE Texts)
The Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents (search in COVE Texts)

by Samuel Richardson

Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (search in COVE Texts)

by Jonathan Swift

Gulliver's Travels (search in COVE Texts)
"A Modest Proposal" (search in COVE Texts)

by Horace Walpole

The Castle of Otranto (search in COVE Texts)

by John Wesley (headnote available)

"The Almost Christian" (search in COVE Texts)