Well-established Romantic women writers contributed book review articles to major and minor review periodicals and to newspapers and magazines. Review periodicals had been made popular by the previous fifty years of their publication and circulation. Though their individual contributions were seldom signed, by voicing literary criticism in these respected publications women reviewers not only helped to mold literary taste during the Romantic period, their contributions there also illustrate their role as respected professionals and experts in the textual fields they evaluated. Many of these women reviewers had recognizable literary careers, like Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Mary Wollstonecraft, Laetitia Elizabeth Landon, and Mary Hays. Others, like Elizabeth Moody found their work as reviewers through their connections to the book trade. The reviews these women authored likely reached more readers than their stand-alone publications, are valuable examples of the diversity of their literary output, and stand as testament to interconnectedness of periodical culture to literary writing in the period.