Date: 1789
"A passion like mine, makes the heart rebellious--it will love on--it will hope, in spite of the rules cold reason dictates"
preview | full record— Inchbald [née Simpson], Elizabeth (1753-1821)
Date: 1795
In "the serious and reflective mind, love raises a despotic throne, and, like the burning sun of Africa, he pours his chiefest ardors upon slaves"
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1796, 1806
"A dread coincidence of time and act / Drew me from Reason's empire to Despair!"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1798
"Agatha's heart is to be your judge."
preview | full record— Inchbald, Elizabeth (1753-1821); Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1798
"It matters not, though gen'rous in their nature, / They yet may serve a most ungen'rous end; / And he who teaches men to think, though nobly, / Doth raise within their minds a busy judge / To scan his actions."
preview | full record— Baillie, Joanna (1762-1851)