Despite her very high reputation, particularly as a poet, in her own day, MB
quickly disappeared from the literary horizon following her death. Disregard of the political aspects of her poetry led to serious misreading...
Literary responses
Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
Critic Susan Brown
notes that Dawson puts her Sappho at the service of a myth of origins for a middle-class articulation of feminist mission.
Brown, Susan I. “A Victorian Sappho: Agency, Identity, and the Politics of Poetics”. English Studies in Canada, Vol.
20
, No. 2, June 1994, pp. 205-25.
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Literary responses
Mary Catherine Hume
Critic Susan Brown
places the poem within the context of feminist activism and the campaign against the Contagious Diseases Acts, and in relation to Judith Butler
's performative model of gender, as an instance...
Reception
Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
In one of the many tributes published at the time of her death in 1934, friend and writer Marie Belloc Lowndes
(daughter of feminist Bessie Rayner Parkes
) said that CADSwrote certain remarkable novels...
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Texts
Brown, Susan I. ’A web of work’: Women Writers through a Digital Lens.
Brown, Susan I. “’Black and White Slaves’: Discourses of Race and Victorian Feminism”. Gender and Colonialism, edited by Timothy P. Foley and Elizabeth Tilley, Galway University Press, 1995, pp. 124-38.
Brown, Susan I. “A Victorian Sappho: Agency, Identity, and the Politics of Poetics”. English Studies in Canada, Vol.
20
, No. 2, pp. 205-25.
Brown, Susan I. “Alternatives to the Missionary Position: Anna Leonowens as Victorian Travel Writer”. Feminist Studies, Vol.
21
, No. 3, pp. 587-14.
Butler, Terry et al. “Can a Team Tag Consistently? Experiences on the Orlando Project”. Markup Languages: Theory and Practice, Vol.
2
, No. 2, 2000, pp. 111-25.
Grundy, Isobel et al. “Dates and ChronStructs: Dynamic Chronology in the Orlando Project”. Literary and Linguistic Computing, Vol.
15
, No. 3, 2000, pp. 265-89.
Brown, Susan I. “Determined Heroines: George Eliot, Augusta Webster, and Closet Drama by Victorian Women”. Victorian Poetry, Vol.
33
, No. 1, pp. 89-109.
Brown, Susan I. “Economical Representations: Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s ’Jenny’, Augusta Webster’s ’A Castaway’, and the Campaign against the Contagious Diseases Acts”. Victorian Review, Vol.
17
, No. 1, pp. 78-95.
Brown, Susan I. et al. “Intertextual Encoding in the Writing of Women’s Literary History”. Computers and the Humanities, Vol.
38
, 2004, pp. 191-06.
Binhammer, Katherine et al. “Introduction: Feminist Literary Historiography”. Women and Literary History: ’For There She Was’, edited by Katherine Binhammer and Jeanne Wood, University of Delaware Press, 2003, pp. 9-23.
Brown, Susan I. “The Victorian Poetess”. The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 180-02.
Brown, Susan I. “Wilde Translation: Transgression in Verse by Speranza (Jane Francesca Wilde)”. Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference, Columbia, SC.