In what ways did conservative novelists of the 1790s engage in the gendered debate in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century, when Britain faced an unprecedented scale of revolutionary unrest? This paper focuses on how Jane West, one of the most popular anti-Jacobin novelists whose works have attracted a large readership in the turbulent period, promoted antirevolutionary messages against revolutionary ideologies in her ”A Gossip's Story” (1796) and ”A Tale of the Times” (1799). The didacticism revealed in her works holds a symbolic significance of her revolt against radical writers of the 1790s. West carefully constructed her stories within a socially acceptable framework. The didactic elements underlying West's novels imply her attempt to map out the incessantly modified construction of power relations and her negotiation for the utterance of female voices in this period.