1st Edition

Prose by Victorian Women An Anthology

Edited By Andrea Broomfield, Sally Mitchell Copyright 1996
    748 Pages
    by Routledge

    746 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    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;

    Biography

    Andrea Broomfield, Sally Mitchell