Emily Jane Pfeiffer
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Standard Name: Pfeiffer, Emily Jane
Birth Name: Emily Jane Davis
Married Name: Emily Jane Pfeiffer
Mid-Victorian feminist
published during the latter half of the nineteenth century. She composed three lengthy narrative poems, six volumes of other poetry, a work documenting her travels, a play, a work of prose fantasy, and, for prominent periodicals, a number of essays. She was particularly admired for her work in the sonnet form. Recurring across various genres is her unflinching depiction of the stunting and even violent impact of marriage on women. Despite her versatility, the originality of her mature work, and the force of her social analysis, her strong critical reputation has waned steeply since her death.Timeline
Texts
Pfeiffer, Emily Jane. Flowers of the Night. Trübner, 1889.
Pfeiffer, Emily Jane. Flying Leaves from East and West. Field and Tuer, 1885.
Pfeiffer, Emily Jane. Gerard’s Monument, and Other Poems. Trübner, 1873.
Pfeiffer, Emily Jane. “Introduction”. Sonnets and Songs (1880), edited by Cody Fife and Terence Allan Hoagwood, Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1998, pp. 5-13.
Pfeiffer, Emily Jane. Margaret. Hurst and Blackett, 1861.
Pfeiffer, Emily Jane. Poems. Strahan, 1876.
Pfeiffer, Emily Jane. Sonnets and Songs. C. Kegan Paul, 1880.
Pfeiffer, Emily Jane. Sonnets and Songs (1880). Editors Fife, Cody and Terence Allan Hoagwood, Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1998.
Pfeiffer, Emily Jane. The Holly Branch. Privately printed, 1843.
Pfeiffer, Emily Jane. “The Posthumous Critics of a Dead Poet, and Deathless Poetry”. Journal of pre-Raphaelite and Aesthetic Studies, Vol.
1
, No. 2, 1988, pp. 89-101. Pfeiffer, Emily Jane. The Rhyme of the Lady of the Rock. Kegan Paul, Trench, 1884.
Pfeiffer, Emily Jane. “The Suffrage for Women”. Contemporary Review, Vol.
47
, 1885, pp. 418-35. Pfeiffer, Emily Jane. “The Tyranny of Fashion”. Cornhill Magazine, Vol.
38
, 1878, pp. 83-94. Pfeiffer, Emily Jane. The Wynnes of Wynhavod. Kegan Paul, Trench, 1881.
Pfeiffer, Emily Jane. Under the Aspens. Kegan Paul, Trench, 1882.
Pfeiffer, Emily Jane. Valisneria. Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1857.
Pfeiffer, Emily Jane. “Woman’s Claim”. Contemporary Review, Vol.
39
, 1881, pp. 265-77. Pfeiffer, Emily Jane. Women and Work. Trübner, 1888.
Pfeiffer, Emily Jane. Women and Work. Cambridge University Press, 2010, http://www.cambridge.org/series/sSeries.asp?code=CLOR.