The theoretical essay with which FPC
headed Josephine Butler
's landmark collection Woman's Work and Woman's Culture, 1869, launches out with wit: Of all the theories current concerning women, none is more curious than...
Intertextuality and Influence
Laura Ormiston Chant
The volume's shorter independent pieces include sonnets. The 70-page Verona, about 1,600 lines of pentameter blank verse, treats the conflict between the title character and her fiancé, Adrian, over her commitment to raising personally...
Textual Features
Elizabeth Bury
EB
set out in her diary to record the most remarkable Providences of God, with respect to her self and others.
Bury, Elizabeth. An Account of the Life and Death of Mrs Elizabeth Bury. Editor Bury, Samuel, Printed by and for J. Penn and sold by J. Sprint.
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Much of the record consists of such passages as: I rose early, and...
Intertextuality and Influence
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Aurora Leigh engages with a wide range of contemporary debates and social issues, paramount among them the roles of women and the role of the poet in contemporary society. It challenges, for instance, long before...
Friends, Associates
Matilda Betham-Edwards
Coventry Patmore
and the pioneer doctor Elizabeth Blackwell
lived in the same village as MBE
.
Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce.