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  • Fiction
    • Aphra Behn
      • Oroonoko, or, The Royal Slave
    • Daniel Defoe
      • Anonymous (Daniel Defoe?) The Apparition of Mrs. Veal
      • Robinson Crusoe
      • The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
      • Moll Flanders
    • Henry Fielding, Shamela
    • Eliza Haywood
      • Eliza Haywood, Fantomina
    • Samuel Johnson, “Rasselas”
    • James Joyce–The Dead
    • Susanna Rowson, Charlotte Temple
    • Horace Walpole
      • Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
    • Virginia Woolf–Mrs. Dalloway
  • Essays
    • Joseph Addison & Richard Steele
      • The Tatler
        • Tatler 1, April 12, 1709 (Steele)
        • Tatler 4, April 16, 1709 (Steele)
        • Tatler 9 (April 28, 1709) (Steele and Swift)
        • Tatler 10, April 30, 1709 (Steele)
        • Tatler 25, June 4, 1709 (Steele)
        • Tatler 116 January 5, 1709 (Addison)
      • The Spectator
        • Spectator #1, 1 March 1711 (Addison)
        • Spectator #2, 2 March 1711 (Steele)
        • Spectator #10, 12 March 1711 (Addison)
        • Spectator #11, 13 March 1711 (Steele)
        • Spectator # 65, 15 May 1711 (Steele)
    • William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation
    • Benjamin Franklin, The “Silence Dogood” Essays
    • Alexander Hamilton
      • Alexander Hamilton, Federalist #1
    • John Locke, “Of Civil Government” (The Second Treatise of Government)
    • Jonathan Swift
      • A Modest Proposal
    • Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
    • Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence
    • Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
  • Poetry
    • Aphra Behn
      • The Disappointment
    • Anne Bradstreet
      • The Prologue
      • A Dialogue between Old England and New; concerning their present Troubles
      • David’s Lamentation, for Saul, and Jonathan
      • A Letter to her husband, absent upon Publick Employment
      • Childhood
      • Upon the Burning of My House, July 10, 1666
    • Robert Burns, Auld Lang Syne
    • John Dryden
      • “Mac Flecknoe”
    • Anne Finch
      • Anne Finch, The Introduction
      • Anne Finch, The Spleen
      • To the Nightingale
      • A Noctural Reverie
    • Thomas Gray
      • Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
    • Samuel Johnson
      • Translation of Horace, Ode ii.20
      • London: The Third Satire of Juvenal, Imitated
        • “London,” First Edition
      • The Vanity of Human Wishes
      • On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet
      • To Sir John Lade, on His Coming of Age
    • Alexander Pope
      • An Essay on Criticism
      • Windsor-Forest
      • The Rape of the Lock, 1712 version
      • The Rape of the Lock
    • Katherine Philips
      • Preface to Poems by the Most Deservedly Admired Mrs. Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, by Charles Cotterell
      • 1. Upon the Double Murder of K. Charles
      • 11. On the 3rd of September 1651
      • 17. Friendship’s Mysterys, To My Dearest Lucasia
      • 18. Content, to My Dearest Lucasia
      • 22. A Retir’d Friendship. To Ardelia
      • 25. To the Excellent Mrs. A. O. upon her receiving the name of Lucasia, and adoption into our society. 29 Decemb 1651
      • 29. Friendship in Emblem, or, the Seale, to my dearest Lucasia
      • 33. To Antenor, on a Paper of Mine
      • 47. Against Pleasure
      • 54. To My Dearest Antenor, on his parting
      • 61. A Countrey life
      • 105. On the death of the truly honourable Sir Walter Lloid Knight
    • Phillis Wheatley
      • To the University of Cambridge, in New-England
      • On the Death of George Whitefield
      • On Being Brought from Africa to America
      • A Hymn to the Morning
      • To the Earl of Dartmouth
      • Niobe in Distress for her Children slain by Apollo
    • John Wilmot, the Earl of Rochester
      • An Allusion to Horace
      • The Maim’d Debauchee
      • The Imperfect Enjoyment
      • Signior Dildo
      • A Ramble in St. James’s Park
      • Satyr
  • Life Writing
    • Benjamin Franklin, “Autobiography”
    • Thomas Jefferson, “Autobiography”
    • Samuel Pepys, from The Diary
    • The Sovereignty and Goodness of God: A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
    • The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
  • Drama
    • William Wycherley, The Country Wife: Introduction
      • The Country Wife, Act I
      • The Country Wife, Act II
      • The Country Wife Act III
      • The Country Wife, Act IV
      • The Country Wife, Act V
    • Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal
    • Royall Tyler, The Contrast
  • Authors
    • Joseph Addison & Richard Steele
    • Aphra Behn
    • Anne Bradstreet
    • Daniel Defoe
    • John Dryden
    • Anne Finch
    • Thomas Gray
    • Eliza Haywood
    • Katherine Philips
    • Alexander Pope
    • Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    • Horace Walpole
    • Phillis Wheatley
    • John Wilmot, the Earl of Rochester
  • Benjamin Franklin, “Autobiography”
  • Getting started with Anne Bradstreet
  • Horace Walpole and Wikipedia
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  • Fiction
    • Aphra Behn
      • Oroonoko, or, The Royal Slave
    • Daniel Defoe
      • Anonymous (Daniel Defoe?) The Apparition of Mrs. Veal
      • Robinson Crusoe
      • The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
      • Moll Flanders
    • Henry Fielding, Shamela
    • Eliza Haywood
      • Eliza Haywood, Fantomina
    • Samuel Johnson, “Rasselas”
    • James Joyce–The Dead
    • Susanna Rowson, Charlotte Temple
    • Horace Walpole
      • Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
    • Virginia Woolf–Mrs. Dalloway
  • Essays
    • Joseph Addison & Richard Steele
      • The Tatler
        • Tatler 1, April 12, 1709 (Steele)
        • Tatler 4, April 16, 1709 (Steele)
        • Tatler 9 (April 28, 1709) (Steele and Swift)
        • Tatler 10, April 30, 1709 (Steele)
        • Tatler 25, June 4, 1709 (Steele)
        • Tatler 116 January 5, 1709 (Addison)
      • The Spectator
        • Spectator #1, 1 March 1711 (Addison)
        • Spectator #2, 2 March 1711 (Steele)
        • Spectator #10, 12 March 1711 (Addison)
        • Spectator #11, 13 March 1711 (Steele)
        • Spectator # 65, 15 May 1711 (Steele)
    • William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation
    • Benjamin Franklin, The “Silence Dogood” Essays
    • Alexander Hamilton
      • Alexander Hamilton, Federalist #1
    • John Locke, “Of Civil Government” (The Second Treatise of Government)
    • Jonathan Swift
      • A Modest Proposal
    • Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
    • Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence
    • Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
  • Poetry
    • Aphra Behn
      • The Disappointment
    • Anne Bradstreet
      • The Prologue
      • A Dialogue between Old England and New; concerning their present Troubles
      • David’s Lamentation, for Saul, and Jonathan
      • A Letter to her husband, absent upon Publick Employment
      • Childhood
      • Upon the Burning of My House, July 10, 1666
    • Robert Burns, Auld Lang Syne
    • John Dryden
      • “Mac Flecknoe”
    • Anne Finch
      • Anne Finch, The Introduction
      • Anne Finch, The Spleen
      • To the Nightingale
      • A Noctural Reverie
    • Thomas Gray
      • Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
    • Samuel Johnson
      • Translation of Horace, Ode ii.20
      • London: The Third Satire of Juvenal, Imitated
        • “London,” First Edition
      • The Vanity of Human Wishes
      • On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet
      • To Sir John Lade, on His Coming of Age
    • Alexander Pope
      • An Essay on Criticism
      • Windsor-Forest
      • The Rape of the Lock, 1712 version
      • The Rape of the Lock
    • Katherine Philips
      • Preface to Poems by the Most Deservedly Admired Mrs. Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, by Charles Cotterell
      • 1. Upon the Double Murder of K. Charles
      • 11. On the 3rd of September 1651
      • 17. Friendship’s Mysterys, To My Dearest Lucasia
      • 18. Content, to My Dearest Lucasia
      • 22. A Retir’d Friendship. To Ardelia
      • 25. To the Excellent Mrs. A. O. upon her receiving the name of Lucasia, and adoption into our society. 29 Decemb 1651
      • 29. Friendship in Emblem, or, the Seale, to my dearest Lucasia
      • 33. To Antenor, on a Paper of Mine
      • 47. Against Pleasure
      • 54. To My Dearest Antenor, on his parting
      • 61. A Countrey life
      • 105. On the death of the truly honourable Sir Walter Lloid Knight
    • Phillis Wheatley
      • To the University of Cambridge, in New-England
      • On the Death of George Whitefield
      • On Being Brought from Africa to America
      • A Hymn to the Morning
      • To the Earl of Dartmouth
      • Niobe in Distress for her Children slain by Apollo
    • John Wilmot, the Earl of Rochester
      • An Allusion to Horace
      • The Maim’d Debauchee
      • The Imperfect Enjoyment
      • Signior Dildo
      • A Ramble in St. James’s Park
      • Satyr
  • Life Writing
    • Benjamin Franklin, “Autobiography”
    • Thomas Jefferson, “Autobiography”
    • Samuel Pepys, from The Diary
    • The Sovereignty and Goodness of God: A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
    • The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
  • Drama
    • William Wycherley, The Country Wife: Introduction
      • The Country Wife, Act I
      • The Country Wife, Act II
      • The Country Wife Act III
      • The Country Wife, Act IV
      • The Country Wife, Act V
    • Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal
    • Royall Tyler, The Contrast
  • Authors
    • Joseph Addison & Richard Steele
    • Aphra Behn
    • Anne Bradstreet
    • Daniel Defoe
    • John Dryden
    • Anne Finch
    • Thomas Gray
    • Eliza Haywood
    • Katherine Philips
    • Alexander Pope
    • Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    • Horace Walpole
    • Phillis Wheatley
    • John Wilmot, the Earl of Rochester
  • Benjamin Franklin, “Autobiography”
  • Getting started with Anne Bradstreet
  • Horace Walpole and Wikipedia
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