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Literature and Society in Victorian Britain


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Women's Theology in Nineteenth-Century Britain Transfiguring the Faith of Their Fathers

Women's Theology in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Transfiguring the Faith of Their Fathers

1st Edition

Edited By Julie Melnyk
November 01, 2019

First published in 1998. This collection of original essays identifies and analyzes 19th-century women's theological thought in all its diversity, demonstrating the ways that women revised, subverted, or rejected elements of masculine theology in creating theologies of their own. While women's ...

A Monument to the Memory of George Eliot Edith J. Simcox's Autobiography of a Shirtmaker

A Monument to the Memory of George Eliot: Edith J. Simcox's Autobiography of a Shirtmaker

1st Edition

Edited By Constance M. Fulmer, Margaret E. Barfield
December 01, 1997

The Autobiography is the personal journal of an independent Victorian woman who describes her day-to-day activities as a businesswoman, social reformer, scholar, and journalist; makes many insightful observations on gender issues; and provides intriguing details of her relationships with many of...

Gender, Genre, and Victorian Historical Writing

Gender, Genre, and Victorian Historical Writing

1st Edition

By Rohan Amanda Maitzen
October 28, 2013

First published in 1999. and Middlemarch and of a range of nineteenth-century historical works, including works by and about women that are discussed extensively here for the first time. The blurring of boundaries between historical and fictional narratives, stimulated by the enormous success of...

Emigration and Empire The Life of Maria S. Rye

Emigration and Empire: The Life of Maria S. Rye

1st Edition

By Marion Diamond
June 01, 1999

Maria S. Rye, a woman motivated by both feminist and philanthropic ideals, devoted her life to the migration of women and girls out of England. This biography gives an account of Rye's activities from her early engagement with liberal feminism through her association with the Langham Place group in...

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