Abstract
If Wollstonecraft presents a searing voice for the reform of conventional "female manners," Hemans and Landon embody a similar challenge to gender norms, but from a literary angle; their shared rhetorical position as symbolic drinkers and makers of intoxicants challenges the feminine propriety that formed the core of gender ideology of the period, against which women writers forged their literary identities.5 As middle-class women living by the pen, who achieved immense fame in the 1820s and 1830s, they both had to negotiate literary reviewers' and readers' expectations about women's roles and women's writing. [...]their commonalities have led both their contemporaries and modem scholars to pair them as, for example, leading figures in "the poetess tradition" or "the poetics of sensibility and sentimentality" and as domesticating geniuses, in which their common themes and tones are emphasized and amplified.6 The affinities and correlations between Hemans and Landon lead us to examine their work together, even as we should recognize their different authorial personas and considerable stylistic differences.