Victorian Women Writers and the Woman Question

Table of Contents

1. Responding to the woman question: re-reading non-canonical Victorian women novelists Nicola Diane Thompson
2. Marriage and the anti-feminist woman novelist Valerie Sanders
3. Breaking apart: the early Victorian divorce novel Anne Humpherys
4. Phantasies of matriarchy in Victorian children's literature by non-canonical woman writers Alison Chapman
5. Gendered observations: Harriet Martineau and the woman question Alexis Easley
6. Maximising Oliphant: begging the question and the politics of satire Monica F. Cohen
7. 'Ploughing in all directions': literary women of the 1850s and Charlotte Mary Yonge's Dynevor Terrace June Sturrock
8. Portraits of the artist as a young woman: representations of the female artist in the women's writing of the 1890s Lyn Pykett
9. Lady in green with novel: the economics of painting in women's writing Dennis Denisoff
10. Ouida and the other new woman Pamela K. Gilbert
11. Organizing women: new woman writers, new woman readers, and suffrage feminism Ann Ardis
12. Shot out of the canon: Mary Ward and the claims of conflicting feminism Beth Sutton-Ramspeck
13. Brave girls and strategic displacements: E. Nesbit and the woman question Amelia A. Rutledge
14. 'An 'old-fashioned' young woman': Marie Corelli and the new woman Annette R. Federico.

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