Prose by Victorian Women : An Anthology

ISBN-13: 9780815319702 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 752 str.

Andrea Broomfield; Sally Mitchell

Opis

A collection of women's theoretical and critical writing on a variety of topics including aesthetics, race, criminal justice, women's issues, animal rights, trade unions, nationalism, religion, travel, education, and government. Includes one to three articles by each of 16 authors including Mary Rus

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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;

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Andrea Broomfield, Sally Mitchell