The 18th century background

G.J. Barker-Benfield, The Culture of Sensibility: Sex and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus (eds), Gender in Eighteenth-Century England: Roles, Representations, and Responsibilities, London: Longman, 1997.

Paul-Gabriel Boucé, Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century Britain, New Jersey: Barnes and Noble, 1972.

Elizabeth Bergen Brophy, Women's Lives and the Eighteenth Century Novel, Tampa: University of SouthFlorida Press, 1991.

O.M. Brack Jr (ed), Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 13, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984.

Alice Browne, The Eighteenth Century Feminist Mind, Brighton: Harvester Press, 1987.

J.C.D. Clark, English Society 1688-1832 Ideology, Social Structure and Political Practice During the Ancien Regime, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

H.T. Dickenson, Liberty and Property: Political Ideology in Eighteenth Century Britain, London: Methuen, 1977.

Douglas Hay and Nicholas Rogers, Eighteenth-Century English-Society, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Chris Jones, Radical Sensibility: Lectures and Ideas in the 1790s, London: Routledge, 1993.

Vivien Jones (ed), Women in the Eighteenth century: Constructions of Femininity, London: Routledge, 1990.

George S. Marr, The Periodical Essayists of the Eighteenth Century, London: James Clarke, 1923.

John Mullan, Sentiment and Sociability: The Language of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988.

Rosemary O'Day, The Family and Family Relationships 1500-1900: England, France and the United States of America, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1994.

Frank O'Gorman, The Long Eighteenth Century: British Political and Social History 1688-1832, London: Arnold, 1997.

J.H. Plumb, England in the Eighteenth Century, London: Penguin Books, 1950.

Roy Porter, English Society in the Eighteenth Century, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1990.

Isabel Rivers (ed) Books and their readers in Eighteenth-Century England, Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1982.

Katherine M. Rogers, Feminism in Eighteenth-Century England, Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1982.

James Sambrook, The Eighteenth Century: The Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature, London: Longman, 1986.

W.A. Speck, Literature and Society in Eighteenth Century England, London: Longman, 1998.

Lawrence Stone, The Family, Sex and Marriage 1500-1800, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1979.

Basil Willey, The Eighteenth century Background, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1962.