Prose by Victorian Women: An AnthologyAndrea Broomfield, Sally Mitchell First published in 1996. The first modern collection of its kind, this anthology includes unabridged essays written by 19th century Britain’s' most eminent women intellectuals- the female counter-parts to the Victorian men of letters. Writing on topics ranging from animal rights and trade unions to aesthetic theory and literary criticism, the women whose rare and hard-to-find woks are presented in this anthology include Mary Russell Mitford, George Eliot, Lady Elizabeth Eastlake, Isabella Bird Bishop, Anne Thackerary Ritchie, Sarah Grand and others. |
Contents
1 | |
II Harriet Martineau | 33 |
III Lady Elizabeth Eastlake
| 77 |
IV George
Eliot | 167 |
V Frances Power
Cobbe | 231 |
VI Eliza Lynn Linton
| 351 |
VII Margaret
Oliphant | 387 |
VIII Isabella Bird
Bishop | 429 |
X Anne Thackeray
Ritchie | 483 |
XI Alice Brooke
Bodington | 505 |
XII Edith Jemima
Simcox | 523 |
XIII Clementina
Black | 599 |
XIV Mona Alison
Caird | 625 |
XV Sarah
Grand | 655 |
XVI Vernon
Lee | 677 |
IX Helen
Taylor | 449 |
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