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The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women's Writing

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  • © 2020

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Editors:
  1. Lesa Scholl

    1. Queen's College, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

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  2. Emily Morris

    1. St Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada

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  • Serves as a comprehensive, indispensable resource for students (undergraduate and postgraduate) of women's writing within the Victorian period

  • Challenges the current understanding of the canon of Victorian women writers by incorporating voices that remain marginal in spite of the recovery work already done, as well as the understanding of what counts as literature/literary output

  • Is a key space for the continuing development of Victorian women’s voices as the recovery work continues and new theoretical and imaginative frameworks arise

  • Features entries on areas outside of traditional literary criticism, such as fashion, advertising and archaeology, bringing into view the breadth of writing produced by women in the nineteenth century

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Table of contents (414 entries)

  1. “Female Industry” (Martineau)

    • Deborah A. Logan

  2. “Lois the Witch”

    • Fariha Shaikh

  3. “Rhythm of Life, The” (Meynell)

    • Amanda Farage

  4. “Sense, Meaning and Interpretation” (Welby)

    • Camille L. Stallings

  5. 1848 Springtime of the People

    • Simon Avery

  6. A Beleaguered City (Oliphant)

    • Shantanu Majee

  7. A Popular History of Astronomy

    • Bernard Lightman

  8. A Romance of Two Worlds (Corelli, Marie)

    • Joanna Turner

  9. Acton, Eliza

    • Heidi Hakimi-Hood

  10. Adaptation

    • Marina Cano

  11. Adventure

    • Christopher Parkes

  12. Agriculture

    • Jane Weiss

  13. Aguilar, Grace

    • Katie Klein Booth

  14. Alcohol/Alcoholism

    • Pam Lock

  15. Aldersey, Mary Ann

    • Esther T. Hu

  16. Alford, Lady Marian

    • Catherine Layton

  17. American Civil War

    • Elizabeth Howard

  18. Anatomy Act

    • Rebecca Haddaway

  19. Androgyny in Dress

    • Madeleine C. Seys

  20. Anglo-Catholicism

    • Rebekah Lamb
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About this book

Since the late twentieth century, there has been a strategic campaign to recover the impact of Victorian women writers in the field of English literature. However, with the increased understanding of the importance of interdisciplinarity in the twenty-first century, there is a need to extend this campaign beyond literary studies in order to recognise the role of women writers across the nineteenth century, a time that was intrinsically interdisciplinary in approach to scholarly writing and public intellectual engagement. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Queen's College, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

    Lesa Scholl

  • St Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada

    Emily Morris

About the editors

Lesa Scholl is Head of Kathleen Lumley College at the University of Adelaide, Australia.  She is the author of two monographs and a number of book chapters/articles, as well as editor of two collections in the area of Victoria literature and women's writing.

Emily Morris is Sessional Instructor in English at St. Thomas More College at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada.  She has co-edited (with Lesa Scholl) a collection of essays on Elizabeth Gaskell and has published a number of articles and book chapters on Victorian women writers.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women's Writing

  • Editors: Lesa Scholl, Emily Morris

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02721-6

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Springer Reference Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Reference Module Humanities and Social Sciences, Reference Module Humanities

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-02721-6Due: 11 November 2023

  • Topics: Nineteenth-Century Literature, Literary History, Modern History

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