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
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Harriet Martineau 333 | 33 |
Lady Elizabeth Eastlake | 77 |
George Eliot | 167 |
Riehl | 173 |
The Modern Hep Hep Hep | 207 |
Frances Power Cobbe | 231 |
Eliza Lynn Linton | 351 |
Helen Taylor | 449 |
Anne Thackeray Ritchie | 483 |
Alice Brooke Bodington | 505 |
Edith Jemima Simcox | 523 |
Clementina Black | 599 |
Mona Alison Caird | 625 |
Sarah Grand | 655 |
The New Woman and the Old | 667 |
Margaret Oliphant | 387 |
Isabella Bird Bishop | 429 |
Letter XV from Unbeaten Tracks in Japan | 439 |
Vernon Lee | 677 |
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