Date: 1788
"During the journey, Emmeline was low and dejected; from which she was sometimes roused by impatient enquiries and fearful apprehensions which darted into her mind, of what was to happen at the end of it."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1788
"She had a metaphysical turn, which inclined her to reflect on every object that passed by her; and her mind was not like a mirror, which receives every floating image, but does not retain them: she had not any prejudices, for every opinion was examined before it was adopted."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1790
"Absorbed in the single idea of being beloved, her imagination soared into the regions of romantic bliss, and bore her high above the possibility of evil."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1790
"The scene she had witnessed, raised in the marchioness a tumult of dreadful emotions. Love, hatred, and jealousy, raged by turns in her heart, and defied all power of controul."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1790
"A variety of strong and contending emotions struggled at her breast, and suppressed the power of utterance."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1790, 1794
"How many fine-spun threads of reasoning would my wandering thoughts have broken; and how difficult should I have found it to arrange arguments and inferences in the cells of my brain!"
preview | full record— Williams, Helen Maria (1759-1827)
Date: 1791, 1794
"My daily employment is to think of you and weep, to pray for your happiness and deplore my own folly: my nights are scarce more happy, for if by chance I close my weary eyes, and hope some small forgetfulness of sorrow, some little time to pass in sweet oblivion, fancy, still waking, wafts me ho...
preview | full record— Rowson, Susanna (1762-1828)
Date: 1791
"As these reflections passed over his mind in tumultuous rapidity, a noise was again heard in the passage, an uproar and scuffle ensued, and in the same moment he could distinguish the voice of his servant, who had been sent by Madame La Motte in search of him."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1794
"While many reflections rose upon his mind, he heard a voice shouting from the road behind, and ordering the muleteer to stop."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1794
"Retired to her lonely cabin, her melancholy thoughts still hovered round the body of her deceased parent; and, when she sunk into a kind of slumber, the images of her waking mind still haunted her fancy."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)