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Format: 1 online resource (328 pages)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 9783031572883

Series Statement: British Women's Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1840-1940 Series ; v.3

Note: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Series Introduction -- Works Cited -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- 1 Introduction -- Women's Writing of the 1880s -- Women's Writing of the 1890s -- Note -- References -- Part I Women's Writing of the 1880s -- 2 Edith Simcox on George Eliot: Transgendered Portraits in Episodes in the Lives of Men, Women, and Lovers -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 3 Domestic Metaphors and Scientific Illustration: Frances Power Cobbe and the Anti-Vivisection Movement in the 1880s -- Historical Background -- The Janus of Science -- Light in Dark Places -- Jack. A Mendicant -- Pompey's Peril -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- 4 'A Ghost Indeed': Spectralising the Female Householder in Margaret Oliphant's 1880s Fiction -- Debates about Married Women's Property in the 1880s -- The Ghost Story and Generational Ties Between Women -- The Female Householder and Exclusion in The Mystery of Mrs. Blencarrow -- Works Cited -- 5 Between the Aesthete and the Shopworker: Mind and Labour In Vernon Lee and Amy Levy -- Works Cited -- 6 Writing for the Masses: Ouida and Newspaper Syndication -- Works Cited -- 7 Adopting the Next Generation: Parenting in Women's Writing of the 1880s -- Family Business: Oliphant's Hester (1883) -- Ghostly Influence in Late Victorian Domestic Fiction: Yonge's Chantry House (1886) -- Influence and Inheritance in Craik's Adoption Novel King Arthur (1886). -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 8 'Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves': Anna Kingsford's Dreams and Dream-Stories (1888) -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 9 'We are one': Fellowship Ideals and Social Transformation in Mona Caird's The Wing of Azrael -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Part II Women's Writing of the 1890s -- 10 Notable or Invisible? Reassessing Women Writers of the 1890s -- Introduction -- The Late-Victorian Literary Marketplace. , John Strange Winter: A Thoroughly Domestic Woman? -- A Room of One's Own?: The Politics of Space -- The Rebel of the Family: Eliza Lynn Linton -- Florence Marryat: A Purveyor of Dangerously Inflammatory Fiction? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 11 Exploring Women's Possibilities at the Fin de Siècle: Sarah Grand's Quest for Women's Enlightenment -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 12 New Humour, New Dialogue: Ada Leverson's Contributions to Punch and The Yellow Book -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 13 George Paston's Fin-de-Siècle Feminism: Caught Between a Book and a Hard Place -- A Modern Amazon -- A Study in Prejudices -- The Career of Candida -- A Fair Deceiver -- A Writer of Books -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 14 'A good deal of risk … and a chance of danger': Detection, Adventure, and Violence in Beatrice Heron-Maxwell's The Adventures of a Lady Pearl-Broker -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 15 Woman Hate, Disgust, and National Happiness in the 1890s: Marie Corelli's The Sorrows of Satan -- Phenomenally Popular Marie Corelli's Approach to Literary Emotions -- The Pursuit of Happiness -- Accounting for the Dissatisfaction of 1890s Society -- A Blueprint for the Successful Pursuit of Happiness? -- Woman Hate in Explorations of Happiness and Unhappiness -- Concluding Thoughts About Modernity, Happiness, and Woman Hate-Disgust -- Notes -- References -- 16 '[S]uch a nasty, sneering book': Class, Gender, and Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler's Concerning Isabel Carnaby -- Works Cited -- 17 Women's Quest for Independence in the 1890s: Mary Cholmondeley's Diana Tempest and Red Pottage -- Works Cited -- Index.

Additional Edition: Print version: Gavin, Adrienne E. British Women's Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, Volume 3 Cham : Palgrave Macmillan,c2024 ISBN 9783031572876

Language: English