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This article examines romantic female friendship during the 18th century. The author, analyzing letters and poetry written between women of the 18th century, maintains strong themes of friendship and romantic love are prominent in the correspondences, which were exclusively written by the women of the educated upper classes.

Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. By Andrew Elfenbein. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. Pp. xii + 262. $49.50 (cloth); $17.50 (paper). It is a fact worth [...]

Notes that although women dominated the English world of letters in the late 1700s, eighteenth-century women writers have been ignored by literary scholars and historians. Asserts that this discrimination in favor of the canonized Romantics, such as Blake and Wordsworth, excludes women Romantics' valuable and lively literary contributions. (MM)