Popular Victorian Women Writers

Author : Kay Boardman,Shirley Jones
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 0719064503

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Popular Victorian Women Writers by Kay Boardman,Shirley Jones Pdf

Popular Victorian women writers considers a diverse group of women writers within the Victorian literary marketplace. It looks at authors such as Ellen Wood, Mary Braddon, Rhoda Broughton and Charlotte Yonge as well as less well-known writers including Jessie Fothergill and Eliza Meteyard.Each essay sets the individual author within her biographical and literary context and provides refreshing insights into their work. Together they bring the work of largely unknown authors and new perspectives on known authors to critical and public attention.Accessible and informative, the book is ideal for students of Victorian literature and culture as well as tutors and scholars of the period.

Author : Nicola Diane Thompson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1999-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521641029

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Victorian Women Writers and the Woman Question by Nicola Diane Thompson Pdf

This book was first published in 1999. This collection of essays by leading scholars from Britain, the USA and Canada opens up the limited landscape of Victorian novels by focusing attention on some of the women writers popular in their own time but forgotten or neglected by literary history. Spanning the entire Victorian period, this study investigates particularly the role and treatment of 'the woman question' in the second half of the century. There are discussions of marriage, matriarchy and divorce, satire, suffragette writing, writing for children, and links between literature and art. Moving from Margaret Oliphant and Charlotte Mary Yonge to Mary Ward, Marie Corelli, 'Ouida' and E. Nesbit, this book illuminates the complex cultural and literary roles, and the engaging contributions, of Victorian women writers.

Author : NA NA
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1999-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0312221975

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Women's Writing of the Victorian Period 1837-1901 by NA NA Pdf

Author : Helen C. Black
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : HARVARD:HW27WK

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Notable Women Authors of the Day by Helen C. Black Pdf

Typical of the genre of literature which presented short biographies of women to demonstrate their accomplishments, this book sketches the lives of twenty prominent British women.

Author : Linda H. Peterson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781316390344

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The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women's Writing by Linda H. Peterson Pdf

The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women's Writing brings together chapters by leading scholars to provide innovative and comprehensive coverage of Victorian women writers' careers and literary achievements. While incorporating the scholarly insights of modern feminist criticism, it also reflects new approaches to women authors that have emerged with the rise of book history; periodical studies; performance studies; postcolonial studies; and scholarship on authorship, readership, and publishing. It traces the Victorian woman writer's career - from making her debut to working with publishers and editors to achieving literary fame - and challenges previous thinking about genres in which women contributed with success. Chapters on poetry, including a discussion of poetry in colonial and imperial contexts, reveal women's engagements with each other and male writers. Discussions on drama, life writing, reviewing, history, travel writing, and children's literature uncover the remarkable achievement of women in fields relatively unknown.

Author : Russell James
Publisher : Prospero Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1738408302

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A Popular Encyclopaedia of Victorian Women Writers by Russell James Pdf

A compendious illustrated guide to those industrious but often overlooked women writers of the Victorian era: the famous, the forgotten and the forlorn. More than 1,500 women authors, along with over 400 pseudonyms, 400 quotes and extracts, and a further 40 subject entries and essays. Not just the familiar names - though they're all there - but literally hundreds of minor and middle-ranking authors, along with the magazines they were serialized in, the trends, the publishers, and the disadvantages and problems women writers faced in what was assumed to be a man's world. You'll find entries on The Bigamy Novel, Children's Literature, Domestic Fiction, Feminism First Faltering Footsteps, Ghost Stories, Governess Stories, Literary Style, Living in a Man's World, Morality and Religion, The New Woman, Romance, Sensation Novels, Silly and Silver Fork Novels, Social Conditions and Reform, The Three-Decker novel, Tracts and Tract Societies, Travellers and Explorers, 'Womanly Fiction', 'Woman's Place' - and more. This is a popular encyclopaedia, not an academic text. It's a book to read and enjoy, to dip into and consult for reference, and it's very readable. Not only is it written in easy-to-read prose but (almost uniquely) it is packed with extracts from Victorian women's writing - paragraphs, short scenes, verses - to bring these authors back to life.

Author : Lesa Scholl,Emily Morris
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1753 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030783181

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The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women's Writing by Lesa Scholl,Emily Morris Pdf

Since the late twentieth century, there has been a strategic campaign to recover the impact of Victorian women writers in the field of English literature. However, with the increased understanding of the importance of interdisciplinarity in the twenty-first century, there is a need to extend this campaign beyond literary studies in order to recognise the role of women writers across the nineteenth century, a time that was intrinsically interdisciplinary in approach to scholarly writing and public intellectual engagement.

Author : Brenda Ayres
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2003-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313039317

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Silent Voices by Brenda Ayres Pdf

Some of the greatest English novels were written during the Victorian era, and many are still widely read and taught today. But many others written during that period have been neglected by scholars and modern readers alike. A number of these novels were written by women and were popular when published. Moreover, they reveal perspectives of 19th-century British culture not present in canonized works and therefore revise our understanding of Victorian life and attitudes. With the increasing interest in revising Victorian history and gender scholarship, especially through the rediscovery of lost texts written by women, this book is a timely and much needed study. The expert contributors to this volume argue the value of novels by such Victorian women writers as Grace Aguilar, Catherine Crowe, Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, Annie E. Holdsworth, Ella Hepworth Dixon, Flora Annie Steel, Anne Thackeray, Sarah Grand, Marie Corelli, and others. Most of the chapters address numerous works by a particular writer. Each focuses on different social issues as well, though most of them share an interest in gender politics. Topics discussed include a 19th-century Jewish novelist's navigation through Protestant spirituality, the relationship of noncanonical governess novels to class and gender issues, and forgotten works by women crime writers. Other chapters analyze how women writers impelled social reform and subverted patriarchally defined religious issues.

Author : Isobel Hurst
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199283514

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Victorian Women Writers and the Classics by Isobel Hurst Pdf

"In this study, Isobel Hurst brings together two lines of enquiry in recent criticism: the Romantic and Victorian reception of ancient Greece and Rome, and women as writers and readers in the nineteenth century."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Anne-Marie Beller,Tara MacDonald
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317754015

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Rediscovering Victorian Women Sensation Writers by Anne-Marie Beller,Tara MacDonald Pdf

Scholarly understanding of the Victorian literary field has changed dramatically in the past thirty years, due in large part to the extensive recovery of sensation fiction and a corresponding recognition of that genre’s importance in the literary debates, trends, and wider cultural practices of the period. Yet until very recently, work on sensationalism has focused on a narrow range of authors and works, with Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and Ellen Wood retaining the preponderance of critical attention. This collection examines the fiction of ten women sensation writers who were immensely popular in the Victorian period but remain critically neglected today – writers such as Annie Edwardes, M.C. Houstoun, Annie French, Dora Russell and others. The Victorian sensation novel was categorically associated with women by Victorian reviewers and this collection extends our current understanding of this sub-genre by showing that female sensation writers were often sophisticated in their textual strategies, employing a range of metafictional techniques and narrative innovations. By moving beyond the novelists who have come to represent the genre, this book presents a fuller, more nuanced, understanding of the spectrum of writing that constructed the concept of ‘sensationalism’ for Victorian readers and critics. The book was originally published as a special issue of Women’s Writing.

Author : Deborah Anna Logan
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0826211755

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Fallenness in Victorian Women's Writing by Deborah Anna Logan Pdf

Logan's study is distinguished by its exclusive focus on women writers, including Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Harriet Martineau, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Florence Nightingale, Sarah Grand, and Mary Prince. Logan utilizes primary texts from these Victorian writers as well as contemporary critics such as Catherine Gallagher and Elaine Showalter to provide the background on social factors that contributed to the construction of fallen-woman discourse.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781621969792

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Antifeminism and the Victorian Novel by Anonim Pdf

Author : Nina Auerbach,U. C. Knoepflmacher
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226230528

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Forbidden Journeys by Nina Auerbach,U. C. Knoepflmacher Pdf

This “darkly entertaining” story collection is “a significant contribution to nineteenth-century cultural history, and especially feminist studies" (United Press International). In the 1870s and 1880s, children’s literature saw some astonishingly bold and innovative writing by women authors. As these eleven dark and wild stories demonstrate, fairy tales by Victorian women constitute a distinct literary tradition, one that was startlingly subversive for its time. While writers such as Lewis Carroll and J.M. Barrie wrote nostalgic tales that pined for lost youth, their female counterparts had more serious—at times unsettling—concerns. From Anne Thackeray Ritchie’s adaptations of "The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood" to Christina Rossetti’s unsettling anti-fantasies in Speaking Likenesses, the stories collected here are breathtaking acts of imaginative freedom, by turns amusing, charming, and disturbing. Besides their social and historical implications, they are extraordinary works of fiction, full of strange delights for readers of any age. "The editors’ intelligent and fascinating commentary reveals ways in which these stories defied the Victorian patriarchy."—Allyson F. McGill, Belles Lettres

Author : Rebecca Styler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317104537

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Literary Theology by Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century by Rebecca Styler Pdf

Examining popular fiction, life writing, poetry and political works, Rebecca Styler explores women's contributions to theology in the nineteenth century. Female writers, Styler argues, acted as amateur theologians by use of a range of literary genres. Through these, they questioned the Christian tradition relative to contemporary concerns about political ethics, gender identity, and personal meaning. Among Styler's subjects are novels by Emma Worboise; writers of collective biography, including Anna Jameson and Clara Balfour, who study Bible women in order to address contemporary concerns about 'The Woman Question'; poetry by Anne Bronte; and political writing by Harriet Martineau and Josephine Butler. As Styler considers the ways in which each writer negotiates the gender constraints and opportunities that are available to her religious setting and literary genre, she shows the varying degrees of frustration which these writers express with the inadequacy of received religion to meet their personal and ethical needs. All find resources within that tradition, and within their experience, to reconfigure Christianity in creative, and more earth-oriented ways.

Author : Precious McKenzie Stearns
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443858502

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Women Rewriting Boundaries by Precious McKenzie Stearns Pdf

Women Rewriting Boundaries expands the work of gender and literary scholars by offering fresh insights on how to read travel writing by women. It analyzes the connections between class, gender, physicality, and sexuality as found in nineteenth-century literature. The authors discuss the myriad ways in which women writers reinforced and challenged Victorian social norms. Inspired by a special topics panel, “Women Writing Boundaries,” presented at the 2013 Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association’s annual convention, this edited collection will be a thought-provoking resource for college- level humanities and gender studies students and their instructors.