Research Catalog

Title

Victorian social activists' novels / edited by Oliver Lovesey.

Publication

London : Pickering & Chatto, 2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lovesey, Oliver
• Pickering & Chatto, publisher.

Description

4 volumes; 25 cm

Summary

• "The Victorian period was a time of massive social change. Novels played a key part in this process. While today the women authors of these works are better known for their campaigns and non-fiction, the novels presented in this four-volume reset edition are key in fully understanding them as individuals, as well as the causes they were fighting for.
• The writers of these novels were involved in various types of activism, using approaches ranging from conservative amelioration to radical militancy. Their works employ a broad variety of genres from the novel of manners, sensation, education and vocation, to allegory, romance, female bildungsroman and lesbian fiction.
• The position of fiction in the careers of these women is complex. Fiction writing was widely recognized as a 'profession' open to women, supplying ready money for personal expenses and for the social cause. It also permitted access to a broad readership that could not be accessed through pamphlets or periodicals, and it allowed the potential for influential literary celebrity. Moreover, romance and the novel had an important position in female education, and fiction allowed writers to voice some of their most unorthodox opinions."--pub. desc.

Subject

• 1800-1899
• English literature > Great Britain > Women authors > History and criticism. > 19th century
• Women > Great Britain > Social conditions > 19th century > Fiction
• English literature > Women authors > History and criticism. > 19th century
• English literature > Women authors
• Women > Social conditions
• Englisch
• Politischer Roman
• Frauenroman
• Politischer Roman > englischer > Frau > Geschichte 19. Jh > Text
• Frau > Politischer Roman > englischer > Geschichte 19. Jh > Text
• Frauenroman
• Sozialer Roman
• Englisch
• Great Britain

Genre/Form

• novels.
• Novels
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Fiction
• Fiction.
• Novels.
• Romans.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

V. 1. Caroline Norton, The wife (1835) -- Appendices : Caroline Norton -- Appendix 1 : A voice from the factories (1836) -- Appendix 2 : A plain letter to the Lord Chancellor on the Infant Custody Bill (1839) -- Appendix 3 : A letter to the Queen on Lord Chancellor Cranworth's Marriage and Divorce Bill (1855) -- Millicent Garrett Fawcett, Janet Doncaster (1875) -- Appendices : Millicent Garrent Fawcett -- Appendix 4 : 'The medical and general education of women' (1868) -- Appendix 5 : 'The electoral disabilities of women' (1870) -- Appendix 6 : 'The future of Englishwomen : a reply' (1878) -- v. 2. Ellice Jane Hopkins, Rose Turquand (1876) -- Appendices : Ellice Hopkins -- Appendix 1 : The visitation of dens, an appeal to the women of England (1874) -- Appendix 2 : from The life and letters of James Hinton (1879) -- Appendix 3 : The White Cross Army, a statement of the Bishop of Durham's movement (1883) -- Appendix 4 : from The power of womanhood; or, Mothers and sons, a book for parents and those in loco parentis (1899) -- v. 3. Mary Eleanor Benson, At sundry times and in divers manners (1891) -- Appendix 1 : from In defence of domestic service : a reply (1890) -- Appendix 2 : from Streets and lanes of the city (1891) -- v. 4. Margaret Todd, Mona Maclean, medical student (1892) -- Appendix 1 : Margaret Todd, 'Some thoughts on the woman question' -- Appendix 2 : Margaret Todd, from The life of Sophia Jex-Blake -- Appendix 3 : Sophia Jex-Blake, 'Medical women in fiction' -- Appendix 4 : Sophia Jex-Blake, "Medical women'.

ISBN

• 9781851966295
• 1851966293
• 9781138765870
• 1138765872
• 9781138765887
• 1138765880
• 9781138765894
• 1138765899
• 9781138765900
• 1138765902

OCLC

• ocn882932568
• 882932568
• SCSB-14527575

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library