Subjects & Themes

“The Finest Story in the World”

The Fifteen Comforts of Matrimony: Responses From Women

On the Vice of Novel Reading

The Ghost of Chatham; A Vision

Are these Things So? (1740) The Great Man's Answer to Are These things So

Shakespeare and Precious Stones

Essays on Taste

The Ordeal of Richard Feverel

A Short View of the Immorality, and Profaneness of the English Stage

A Political Romance

The Little Dream: An Allegory in Six Scenes

Preface to Major Barbara: First Aid to Critics

Questionable Shapes

Padlocked

The political novel

Antimachus of Colophon and the Position of Women in Greek Poetry

Proof: Does God Exist

Satire in the Victorian novel

The Slaves of Society

A Commentary