1st Edition

Victorian Social Activists' Novels

1456 Pages
by Routledge

1456 Pages
by Routledge

The writers of these novels were involved in various types of activism, using approaches ranging from conservative amelioration to radical militancy. Their works employ a broad variety of genres from the novel of manners, sensation, education and vocation, to allegory, romance and lesbian fiction.

Volume 1: General Introduction, Caroline Norton, The Wife (1835), Millicent Garrett Fawcett, Janet Doncaster (1875); Volume 2: Ellice Jane Hopkins, Rose Turquandd (1876); Volume 3: Mary Eleanor Benson, At Sundry Times and in Divers Manners (1891); Volume 4: Margaret Todd, Mona Maclean, Medical Student

Biography

All volumes edited by Oliver Lovesey