Gaskell, Elizabeth. The Letters of Mrs Gaskell. Editors Chapple, J. A. V. and Arthur Pollard, Harvard University Press.
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|---|---|---|
| Author summary | Adelaide Procter | 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... |
| Reception | Christina Rossetti | 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 |
| Textual Features | Adelaide Procter | 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... |
| Textual Features | George Eliot | 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... |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Gaskell | 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. |
| Textual Features | Anna Brownell Jameson | 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... |
| Textual Production | Emily Davies | ED
edited the Langham Place Group
's unofficial organ, The English Woman's Journal, until some time the following year. Davies, Emily. “Chronology, Introduction”. Collected Letters, 1861-1875, edited by Ann E. Murphy and Deirdre Raftery, University of Virginia Press, p. ix - xii, xix-lv. xxvii Stephen, Barbara. Emily Davies and Girton College. Constable. 76 |
| Textual Production | Harriet Martineau | 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 Martineau, Harriet. Harriet Martineau on Women. Editor Yates, Gayle Graham, Rutgers University Press. 75 |
| Textual Production | Frances Power Cobbe | 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... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Charlotte Yonge | 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... |
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