Eighteenth-century women poets and their poetry : inventing agency, inventing genre / Paula R. Backscheider.

Introduction: Changing contexts ; Systems, gender, and persistent issues ; Agency and the "marked marker"
Anne Finch and what women wrote
Women and poetry in the public eye
Hymns, narratives, and innovations in religious poetry
Friendship poems
Retirement poetry
The elegy
The sonnet, Charlotte Smith, and what women wrote
- Conclusion.