Popular Victorian Women Writers

by Edited by Kay Boardman and Shirley Jones

• ISBN13: 9780719064500
• ISBN10: 0719064503
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2004-10-01
• Publisher: Manchester University Press

Summary

This book considers a diverse group of women writers within the Victorian literary marketplace. It looks at authors such as Ellen Wood, Mary Braddon, Rhoda Broughton and Charlotte Yonge as well as less well-known writers including Jessie Fothergill and Eliza Meteyard. Each essay sets the individual author within her biographical and literary context and provides refreshing insights into her work. Together they bring the work of largely unknown authors and new perspectives on known authors to critical and public attention. Accessible and informative, the book is ideal for students of Victorian literature and culture as well as scholars of the period.

Author Biography

Kay Boardman is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Central Lancashire.

Shirley Jones teaches in higher education in the Northwest of England.

Table of Contents

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Works in unbroken succession: The literary career of

Struggling for fame: Eliza Meteyards principled career

Almost always two sides to a question: The novels of

All-sufficient to one another?: Charlotte Yonge and the family chronicl

Worlds not realised: The work of Louisa Molesworth

One wing clipped: The imaginative flights of

Writing for the million: The enterprising fiction of

Behind the scenes, before the gaze: Mary Braddons theatrical world

Love: Rhoda Broughton, writing and re-writing romance

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