The Wonder: A Woman Keeps a Secret Book

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Susanna Centlivre: A Brief Chronology

A Note on the Text

The Wonder

Appendix A: Contemporary Responses to Centlivre and The Wonder

1. Richard Steele, The Tatler
2. Richard Steele, The Lover
3. Arthur Bedford, A Serious Remonstrance in Behalf of the Christian Religion

Appendix B: Eighteenth-Century Biographical Accounts

1. Giles Jacob, The Poetical Register
2. Abel Boyer, The Political State of Great Britain
3. John Mottley [?], “A Complete List of all the English Dramatic Poets”
4. William Chetwood, The British Theatre

Appendix C: Selections from Centlivre’s Poetry

1. "A Poem, Humbly Presented to His most Sacred Majesty George, King Of Great Britain, France, and Ireland. Upon his Accession to the Throne"
2. "A Woman’s Case"

Appendix D: Early Nineteenth-Century Criticism

1. Elizabeth Inchbald, “Remarks” on The Wonder, The British Theatre
2. William Hazlitt, The Examiner
3. William Hazlitt, “On the Comic Writers of the Last Century”

Works Cited and Recommended Reading