Victorian Women Writers and the Woman Question

Book Overview

This collection of essays focuses attention on a number of Victorian women writers popular in their own time but forgotten or neglected by literary history, from Margaret Oliphant and Charlotte Yonge to Mary Ward, Marie Corelli, Ouida and E. Nesbit. Particular emphasis is given to writings concerned with the woman question. Discussions of marriage, matriarchy and divorce, satire, suffragette writing, writing for children, and links between literature...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107404150
• ISBN13: 9781107404151
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"