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Part 1: The restoration and early eighteeth century - signs and sexuality; the female wits - women writers of the restoration and early eighteeth century; were I empress the world - the German princess and the Duchess of Newcastle; an honour and glory to our sex - Aphra Benh; life after sex - delavier Manley. Part 2: the mid-eighteeth century - sentiment and sincerity; the modest muse - women writers of the mid-eighteeth century; re-formers - Eliza Haywood and Charlotte Lennox; Novelists of sentiment - Sarah Fielding and Frances Sheridan; the fantasy of sensibility - Frances Brooke and Sussannah Gunning. Part 3: The late eighteeth century - the decades of revolution; radicals and reactionaries - women writers of the late eighteeth century; The Unsex females - Mary wollstonecraft and mary Hays; The great enchantress - Ann Radcliffe; moral authorship and authority - Fanny Burney.