The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Romantic-Era Women’s Writing provides a comprehensive map of the dynamic trans-Atlantic and cross-Channel cultural developments that helped form women’s texts, both manuscript and print, from 1770-1837. The entries cover not only poetry and novels but also women’s contributions to fields such as philosophy and science. The entries themselves are organically inter-disciplinary, since poets, for example, were translating works of natural philosophy, and political commentators were writing novels. In a period before the compartmentalization of intellectual disciplines, many women contributed to multiple fields of knowledge. The encyclopedia crosses national boundaries, as well as disciplinary ones, charting cultural expressions arising from continental Europe, Africa, and the Americas, as well as the British Isles.   

Natasha Duquette is Academic Dean and Professor of Literature at Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College in Barry's Bay, Ontario, Canada. For the Chawton House series of women’s novels, she created a critical edition of Helen Maria Williams’s Julia, a novel interspersed with poetical pieces (Pickering & Chatto, 2009; reissued in paperback by Routledge, 2016). She has edited two essays collections: Sublimer Aspects: Interfaces between Literature, Aesthetics, and Theology (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007) and, with Elisabeth Lenckos, Jane Austen and the Arts: Elegance, Propriety, and Harmony (Lehigh University Press, 2013). Her monograph Veiled Intent: Dissenting Women’s Aesthetic Approach to Biblical Interpretation was published by Pickwick in 2016 and her 30-Day Journey with Jane Austen by Fortress Press in 2020.