Susan Hamilton

Standard Name: Hamilton, Susan

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Anthologization Frances Power Cobbe
In 1995 Susan Hamilton took from FPC the title of her edited collection Criminals, Idiots, Women, and Minors: Victorian Writing by Women on Women. Other FPC essays have also been reprinted in collections, and...
Publishing Eliza Lynn Linton
This essay, also printed independently as a pamphlet in both London and New York, later gave its name to the series, reprinted as a volume. There is a modern edition by Susan Hamilton ...
Reception Frances Power Cobbe
Mitchell 's Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer, 2004, is a superbly detailed source on FPC 's life and on Victorian feminism generally. Interest is slowly growing in her role and that of...
Textual Production Frances Power Cobbe
Once the campaign against vivisection became FPC 's ruling passion, much of her writing energies were consumed by it. She herself characterized it as the end of her career as a journalist, owing in part...

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Texts

Hamilton, Susan. “’Still Lives’: Gender and the Literature of the Victorian Vivisection Controversy”. Victorian Review, Vol.
17
, No. 2, 1991, pp. 21-34.
Hamilton, Susan, editor. Criminal, Idiots, Women, and Minors: Victorian Writing by Women on Women. Broadview, 1995.
Martineau, Harriet. “Female Industry”. Criminals, Idiots, Women and Minors: Nineteenth-Century Writing by Women on Women, edited by Susan Hamilton, Broadview, 1995, pp. 29-73.
Hamilton, Susan. “Locating Victorian Feminism: Frances Power Cobbe, Feminist Writing, and the Periodical Press”. Nineteenth-Century Feminisms, No. 2, pp. 48-66.
Linton, Eliza Lynn. “The Girl of the Period; The Modern Revolt; The Wild Women: as Politicians; The Wild Women: as Social Insurgents”. Criminals, Idiots, Women and Minors: Victorian Writing by Women on Women, edited by Susan Hamilton, Broadview, 1995, pp. 172-07.
Jameson, Anna Brownell. “The Milliners”. Criminals, Idiots, Women, and Minors: Nineteenth-Century Writing by Women on Women, edited by Susan Hamilton, Broadview, 1995, pp. 21-6.