Wollstonecrafts ghost : the fate of the female philosopher in the romantic period Introduction: Im not a female philosopher but Imagining Mary: representations of Wollstonecraft in the works of Mary Hays and William Godwin The death of the feminist in Amelia Opies Adeline Mowbray Elizabeth Hamiltons modern philosophers and Maria Edgeworths Belinda England in eighteen hundred and fourteen: the state of the nation in Frances Burneys The Wanderer and Jane Austens Mansfield Park Hideous progeny: the female philosopher in gothic historical and silver fork fiction Afterword: The afterlives of the female philosopher