Langham Place Group

This novel mocks female self-assertion as absurd and inappropriate, through the experience of Rachel Curtis. CY seems to be writing of pitfalls and temptations which she had found it hard yet necessary to resist. Readers...

ED edited the Langham Place Group 's unofficial organ, The English Woman's Journal, until some time the following year.

HM wrote on topics related to women and supported a wide range of feminist causes throughout her career. She sent a letter conveying her warm and unrestricted sympathy to the participants in the Women's...

After the presentation of the Langham Place Group 's suffrage petition on 7 June 1866 FPC began a campaign to get a follow-up piece into the The Spectator arguing that the addition of uneducated male...

The speaker of this dramatic lyric (female, as the title makes clear) spends the seven of the eight stanzas of the poem probing her lover's conscience:Before I trust my Fate to thee,
Or place...

This story is equally remarkable for the portraits of Mr Tryan (the Evangelical clergyman who not only converts Janet to his beliefs but succeeds in sparking her will to regeneration) and of Janet herself, but...

North and South reflects the debate over middle-class female employment which had been powerfully voiced by Anna Jameson , to whom EG confessed herself greatly indebted in a letter of 1855. The case for...

ABJ 's views on women and work were taken up with enthusiasm by Bessie Rayner Parkes , Barbara Leigh Smith , and other Langham Place Group members who combined their efforts to found the English...

This best-known poem has had myriad editions, often with illustrations, and generated a wide range of interpretation. It resonates powerfully with CR 's Anglicanism , and more particularly her experience at the St Mary Magdalene Penitentiary

AP 's poetry, which appeared almost exclusively in Household Words and All the Year Round, was among the most popular of the Victorian era. An active mid-Victorian feminist, she was a member of the...

The association with Parkes led to IC 's lengthy involvement with the mid-Victorian feminist movement, which coalesced through the activities and publications of the Langham Place Group. She is often referred to by historians...

CR , despite her poor health and her disavowal of the role of political poet, was keenly interested in political events and connected herself with contemporary political movements in a range of ways. Her father's...

ED quickly became involved with the Langham Place circle . In 1859 Jane Crow became the Secretary of the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women , and went to live at the Langham Place office.

BLSB and the Langham Place feminists strongly supported John Stuart Mill 's campaign for office.

BRP was left in primary charge of the journal in 1859, when Barbara Leigh Smith (who had married three months after Parkes became editor) began to live outside England for half of the year. Because...