The literariness of history
"My heart will stand the test": Catharine Macaulay and sympathetic history
Traditional genre and naive historical narrative
Political critique in Sophia Lee's tTe recess and Ann Yearsley's Earl Goodwin
The "collapse" of history and the imaginary
Helen Maria Williams and the "Regendering" of history
Jane Porter's novel histories: "Romancing" the British nation
Mary Shelley's foreclosed history in Valperga
"Narrativity" and feminist history
"The worthy associates of the best efforts of the best men": Lucy Aikin's Epistles on women and memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth
Conclusion: histories that are novel.