Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Isa Craig
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Standard Name: Craig, Isa
Birth Name: Isa Craig
Married Name: Isa Knox
Self-constructed Name: Isa Craig-Knox
Pseudonym: Isa
Pseudonym: Mrs Knox
Pseudonym: The Author of Deepdale Vicarage
Pseudonym: The Author of Mark Warren
Isa Craig
was a poet, journalist, editor, and novelist whose literary work was informed by the concerns of the mid-Victorian feminist movement. Her verse appeared in several periodicals, including the feminist English Woman's Journal, on whose staff she served. As assistant secretary of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science
between 1857 and 1865, IC
compiled and edited that organization's annual Transactions. Much of her journalistic writing and fiction is didactic in tone, evincing a concern with the struggles and moral reform of working-class daily life.
After the appearance of Goblin Market, CR
had less difficulty placing her verse in periodicals. The tide had already started to turn in the 1850s, when her work began to appear in journals including...
Publishing
Christina Rossetti
In 1860 CR
produced a gothic short story, Case 2: Folio 2, about a man who produced no reflection in mirrors. Her brother William
remembered it as perhaps the best tale she ever wrote...
Textual Features
Annie S. Swan
The indices to its bound volumes list both tales and serial tales without naming the authors—even though, as named on the pages where their work actually appears, they include such luminaries as Robert Buchanan
and...
Friends, Associates
Sarah Tytler
ST
's career as a writer introduced her to many leading literary figures (especially those of Scots origin) whom she entertainingly describes in Three Generations.
Tytler, Sarah. Three Generations. J. Murray, 1911.
By now an established and successful writer, EW
became proprietor and editor (in succession to Isa Craig
) of The Argosy, a monthly periodical that showcased her work. She bought it from publisher Alexander Strahan
.
Montgomery, Katherine F. “Ladies who Launch: the Argosy Magazine and Ellen Price Woods Perilous Voyages”. Womens Writing, Vol.