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Hannah Cowley Bibliography


Plays

  • Cowley, Hannah. The Works of Mrs. Cowley: Dramas and Poems. 3 vols. London, 1813.

  • Cowley, Hannah. The Plays of Hannah Cowley. Frederick M. Link ed. New York: Garland Publisher, 1979.

General

  • Choudhury, Mita. "Gazing at His Seraglio: Late Eighteenth-Century Women Playwrights as Orientalists." Theatre Journal 47 (1995): 481-502.

  • Escott, Angela. "Critical Introduction to Hannah Cowley’s The Runaway." British Women Playwrights around 1800. Ed. Thomas Crochunis and Michael Eberle-Sinatra. 15 July 2000. Stanford University. 9 September 2002.

  • Gagen, Jean. "The Weaker Sex: Hannah Cowley’s Treatment of Men in Her Comedies of Courtship and Marriage." The University of Mississippi Studies in English 8 (1990): 107-116.

  • Lock, F. P. "The Belle’s Stratagem, 1780-1903." Book Collector 23 (1974): 537-546.

  • Norton, J. E. "Some Uncollected Authors XVI: Hannah Cowley, 1743-1809." Book Collector 7 (1958): 68-78.

  • Stanton, Judith Phillips. "‘This New-Found Path Attempting’: Women Dramatists in England, 1660-1800." Curtain Calls: British and American Women and the Theater, 1660-1820. Eds. Mary Anne Schofield and Cecilia Macheski. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 19