The Father and Daughter with Dangers of Coquetry (Paperback)

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Amelia Alderson Opie: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text

The Father and Daughter

Dangers of Coquetry

Appendix A: Extracts from Amelia Opie’s Letters 

Appendix B: Reviews of Dangers of Coquetry and The Father and Daughter

1. Reviews of Dangers of Coquetry
1. The European Magazine (May 1790)
2. Critical Review (September 1790)
3. The English Review (March 1791)
2. Reviews of The Father and Daughter
1. The Critical Review, or Annals of Literature (May 1802)
2. The Monthly Review; or Literary Journal (May 1801)
3. The European Magazine (September 1801)
4. The Edinburg Review (October 1802)

Appendix C: Contemporary Responses to The Father and Daughter

1. Thomas Robinson to Henry Crabb Robinson, 31 July 1801
2. Mrs. Thomas Clarkson to R.E. Garnham, 20 May 1802
3. From “Mrs. Opie,” The European Magazine, and London Review (May 1803)
4. From The Gentleman’s Magazine (August 1806)
5. From “Mrs. Opie,” The Ladies’ Monthly Museum (February 1817)

Appendix D: L’Agnese

1. From Agnes; A Serio-Comic Opera, in Two Acts
2. Reviews of L’Agnese

Appendix E: Smiles and Tears

1. From Mrs. C. Kemble, Smiles and Tears: or, The Widow’s Strategem (1815)2. Reviews of Smiles and Tears

Appendix F: The Lear of Private Life

1. From Agnes; A Serio-Comic Opera, in Two Acts
2. Reviews of L’Agnese

Appendix G. Songs and Airs

1. “A Hindustàni Girl’s Song”
2. “A Mad Song”
3. “The Orphan Boy’s Tale”

Appendix H: Chastity

1. From Hannah More, Essays on Various Subjects, Principally Designed for Young Ladies (1777)
2. Catharine Macaulay, from LETTER XXIV, Chastity in Letters on Education (1790)
3. From William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1798)
4. From Hannah More, Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education (1799)

Appendix I: Coquetry

1. Joseph Addison, The Spectator No. 281, January 22, 1712
2. Catherine Jemmat, “The Lady’s Resolve” (1762)
3. From Memoirs of a Coquet; or the History of Miss Harriot Airy (1765)
4. Catharine Macaulay, Letter XXII, Coquetry in Letters on Education (1790)
5. From Ladys Monthly Museum (June 1799)

Appendix J: Madness

1. From Cecilia Lucy Brightwell, Memorials of the Life of Amelia Opie (1854)
2. “Proposals for the establishment of a Lunatic Asylum under the Care of Friends, to be called The Southern Retreat” and letter from Amelia Opie to Joseph John Gurney, August 8, 1939
3. From William Battie, M.D. A Treatise on Madness (1758)
4. From John Munro M.D., Remarks on Dr. Battie’s Treatise on Madness (1758)
5. From William Cullen, First Lines of the Practice of Physic (1788)
6. From Andrew Harper, A Treatise on the Real Cause and Cure of Insanity (1789)

Appendix K: Substantive Variants in The Father and Daughter

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