Collective 18th-century biographies of literary women

During the eighteenth century, there were several attempts to describe a "women's literary tradition." This table compares six eighteenth-century collections of notable women: George Ballard's Memoirs of several ladies of Great Britain (1752), John Duncombe's The Feminead (1754), the Biographium Faemineum (Anon., 1766), Mary Scott's The Female Advocate (1775), Richard Polwhele's The Unsex'd Females (1798), and Mary Hay's Female Biography (1803). == Collective 18th-century biographies of literary women == As the focus of this chart is British literary figures, broadly defined, two of the texts have been treated selectively because of their wider range.

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