Isobel Armstrong

Recently her writing has been included in Victorian Women Poets: an Anthology, edited by Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton , 1995; in Nineteenth-Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology, edited by Isobel Armstrong ,...

Not much is known about MK 's life in the twentieth century. According to Isobel Armstrong , Joseph Bristow , and Cath Sharrock in Nineteenth-Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology, she was quite eccentric...

Another concern of this essay is the violence with which gender roles have historically been enforced. JK sees, according to Isobel Armstrong , the female terrorist as a model of women's condition of damaged narcissism.

Isobel Armstrong , reviewing Searoad: Chronicles of Klatsand for the TLS, noted Le Guin's pioneering recognition of the stories of native American women, and her engagement with the commonplace lives examined here, of middle-class...

As critics Joseph Bristow and Isobel Armstrong note, the poems are technically assured; their succinctness of diction and evocative imagery anticipate the poetry of the fin-de-siècle. Some tackle universal yet also fashionable themes...