Description
Book Synopsis'Popular Victorian women writers' is a collection of essays on a variety of women writers working within the Victorian literary marketplace. Diverse and inclusive, the great strength of this book is that its emphasis on neglected writers and refreshing new angles on more widely known authors sends its readers back eagerly to the primary texts.
Table of ContentsList of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction - Kay Boardman and Shirley Jones
1. 'Works in unbroken succession': The literary career of Mary Howitt - Brian E. Maidment
2. Struggling for fame: Eliza Meteyard's principled career - Kay Boardman
3. 'Almost always two sides to a question': The novels of Jessie Fothergill - Helen Debenham
4. 'All-sufficient to one another'?: Charlotte Yonge and the family chronicle - Valerie Sanders
5. 'Worlds not realised': The work of Louisa Molesworth - Jane Darcy
6. 'One wing clipped': The imaginative flights of Juliana Horatia Ewing - Jennifer H. Litster
7. Writing for the million: The enterprising fiction of Ellen Wood - Marie Riley
8. Behind the scenes, before the gaze: Mary Braddon's theatrical world - Valerie Pedlar
9. 'LOVE': Rhoda Broughton, writing and re-writing romance - Shirley Jones
