MARY SPONGBERG is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.

Introduction: Empathetic Historians - English Women Write the Nation's Past
1. Short Lived Queens: Edmund Burke and the Gender of Whig Historiography
2. The Ghost of Marie Antoinette: Mary Wollstonecraft and the Emergence of 'Empathetic History'
3. Jane Austen, Mary Stuart and the History of England
4. Queen Caroline as Anne Boleyn: Dissenting Women Writers [Lucy Aikin & Elizabeth Benger] and the 'Invention' of Royal Biography
5. The Trial of Queen Caroline: Mary Hays' Collective Royal Biography as Political Dissent
6. Agnes Strickland's Mary of Modena: Empathetic History in the Archives
7. Stuart History as Empathetic History: Mary Anne Everett Green and the Letters of Henrietta Maria