Letter to the Women of England

Abstract

A Letter to the Women of England on the Injustice of Mental Subordination is a diplomatic facsimile edition of Mary Robinson's work with the same name, published in February 1799, and can be found in Romantic Circles scholarly Website. The copy text is the first edition of Robinson’s Letter (identified with the code C142b13), which is now part of the collection of the British Library. The facsimile edition has been published in Romantic Circles in 1998 and is enriched by some additional texts: two other poems of Mary Robinson; one Review of the Letter; three more reviews of other works by the same author and three letters of Robinson, presented in order to clarify the atmosphere of her literary circle. The aim of this review is to analyse the Letter to the Women of England by means of the so-called digital paradigm - which focuses on its content, features and editorial work - and thus to determine whether it can be considered a Scholarly Digital Edition (SDE) or not.