The poets -- Mrs. Hemans -- Caroline Southey -- The annualists -- L. E. L. -- Caroline Norton -- Voyagers to India -- Maria Jewsbury -- Mrs. Elwood -- Emma Roberts -- Emily Eden -- Critics of America -- Frances Trollope -- Harriet Martineau -- Lady Emmeline Stuart-Wortley -- The philanthropists -- Elizabeth Fry -- Harriet Martineau -- Angela Burdett-Coutts -- The salons -- Lady Holland -- Lady Blessington -- Lady Ashburton