Book Series in Literature
Literature and Society in Victorian Britain
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Leisured Ladies
This book explores women's culture and duty in the Victorian novel. The nineteenth century leisured lady disturbs modern sensibilities, as codes of strict gentility… read more2000 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-2053-1 (Routledge)
Emigration and Empire
The Life of Maria S. Rye
Maria S. Rye, a woman motivated by both feminist and philanthropic ideals, devoted her life to the migration of women and girls out of England.… read more1999 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-2528-4 (Routledge)
Gender, Genre, and Victorian Historical Writing
This important interdisciplinary study traces transformations in Victorial historical writing that made possible new ways of thinking about and representing women in history. Combining literary… read more1998 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-2897-1 (Routledge)
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A Monument to the Memory of George Eliot
Edith J. Simcox's Autobiography of a Shirtmaker
The Autobiography is the personal journal of an independent Victorian woman who describes her day-to-day activities as a businesswoman, social reformer, scholar, and journalist;… read more1997 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-2782-0 (Routledge)
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Women's Theology in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Transfiguring the Faith of Their Fathers
This collection of original essays identifies and analyzes 19th-century women's theological thought in all its diversity, demonstrating the ways that women revised, subverted, or rejected… read more1997 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-2793-6 (Routledge)
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The Maternal Voice in Victorian Fiction
Rewriting the Patriarchal Family
This is the first full-length study to focus specifically on representations of motherhood in fiction by such Victorian writers as Elizabeth Gaskell, Margaret Oliphant, Caroline… read more1997 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-2777-6 (Routledge)
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Victorian Urban Settings
Essays on the Nineteenth-Century City and Its Contexts
This volume of 13 original interdisciplinary essays surveys the relationship of Victorian works and the urban experience that shaped them. Each essay addresses how… read more1996 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-1949-8 (Routledge)