Examining the works of women writers from Jane Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft to the Strickland sisters and Mary Anne Everett Green, this book gives a more complete and nuanced picture of women's participation in the writing of history. Table of contents: 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