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Mary Hay''s first novel, Memoirs of Emma Courtney, transgresses literary and social conventions with its outspoken heroine who pursues the man she loves. It concerns itself with issues of female dependence, sexuality, and woman's role in society.

Hobbes' classic work has set the tone for the course of political philosophy through to our own day. This new Broadview edition includes the full text of the 1651 edition, together with a wide variety of background documents that help set the work in context. Also included are an introduction, explanatory notes, and a chronology.

Memoirs of Modern Philosophers follows the plight of Brigetina Botherim, whose participation in an English anti-Jacobin group leads her to disregard the advice of her mother and of other elders.'

This text dramatises many key issues relating to class and gender in late Victorian culture. In Gissing's story, Virginia Madden and her two sisters are confronted upon the death of their father with sudden impoverishment.

Mary Robinson''s work has started to assume a central place in criticism and anthologies of romanticism. A writer of the 1790s, Robinson's poems chronicle the major events of the day and participate in the chief aesthetic innovations.

The works of Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) ranged from the early Thoughts on the Education of Daughters to The Female Reader, a selection of texts for girls, and included two novels.

Michael Henchard gets drunk at a fair and sells his wife and child for five guineas to a sailor. Henchard proves to be violent, selfish, greedy and crude, yet at the same time he is magnanimous and humble.

Provides an outstanding introduction to a difficult period of literary history. This volume provides a simple historical and cultural context for the study of the Anglo-Saxons, and offers a history, illustrated by many passages in translation, of the whole of the literature that survives.

East Lynne is the story of Lady Isabel Carlyle, a beautiful young woman who leaves her hard-working but neglectful husband and her infant child to elope with an aristocratic suitor. She later returns in disguise and becomes her husband''s governess.'

Aurora Floyd is one of the leading novels in the genre known as "sensation fiction". Braddon''s text has been carefully annotated for modern readers in this edition, including documents setting the text in context.'