Prose by Victorian Women (eBook, PDF)

An Anthology
Redaktion: Broomfield, Andrea; Mitchell, Sally

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 752
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317777595
• Artikelnr.: 40172402

Autorenporträt

Andrea Broomfield, Sally Mitchell

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Mary Russell Mitford
Chapter 1 Our Village
Chapter 2 Rosedale
Chapter 3 Walks in the Country
Part 2 Harriet Martineau
Chapter 4 Prison Discipline
Chapter 5 Letter to the Deaf
Chapter 6 Society in America
Part 3 Lady Elizabeth Eastlake
Chapter 7 Modern Painters
Chapter 8 Photography
Part 4 George Eliot (Marian Evans)
Chapter 9 Natural History of German Life
Chapter 10 The Modern Hep! Hep! Hep!
Part 5 Frances Power Cobbe
Chapter 11 What Shall We Do with Our Old Maids?
Chapter 12 The Rights of Man and the Claims of Brutes
Chapter 13 Wife-Torture in England
Chapter 14 Schadenfreude
Part 6 Eliza Lynn Linton
Chapter 15 The Girl of the Period
Chapter 16 George Eliot
Chapter 17 Nearing the Rapids
Part 7 Margaret Oliphant
Chapter 18 The Literature of the Last Fifty Years
Part 8 Isabella Bird Bishop
Chapter 19 Letter XXVI from Six Months Among the Palm Groves, Coral Reefs, and Volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands
Chapter 20 Letter XV from Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
Part 9 Helen Taylor
Chapter 21 Women and Criticism
Chapter 22 The Ladies' Petition
Part 10 Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Chapter 23 Heroines and Their Grandmothers
Part 11 Alice Brooke Bodington
Chapter 24 The Importance of Race and Its Bearing on the "Negro Question"
Part 12 Edith Jemima Simcox
Chapter 25 Autobiographies
Chapter 26 Women's Work and Women's Wages
Chapter 27 The Capacity of Women
Part 13 Clementina Black
Chapter 28 The Coercion of Trade Unions
Chapter 29 What Is a Fair Wage?
Chapter 30 The Dislike to Domestic Service
Part 14 Mona Alison Caird
Chapter 31 The Morality of Marriage
Part 15 Sarah Grand (Frances Elizabeth Clarke McFall)
Chapter 32 The New Aspect of the Woman Question
Chapter 33 The New Woman and the Old
Part 16 Vernon Lee (Violet Paget)
Chapter 34 Art and Life I., III.
Chapter 35 Gospels of Anarchy