ABSTRACT
First published in 1996. The first modern collection of its kind, this anthology includes unabridged essays written by 19th century Britain’s' most eminent women intellectuals- the female counter-parts to the Victorian men of letters. Writing on topics ranging from animal rights and trade unions to aesthetic theory and literary criticism, the women whose rare and hard-to-find woks are presented in this anthology include Mary Russell Mitford, George Eliot, Lady Elizabeth Eastlake, Isabella Bird Bishop, Anne Thackerary Ritchie, Sarah Grand and others.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |31 pages
Mary Russell Mitford
part |43 pages
Harriet Martineau
chapter |13 pages
Prison Discipline
chapter |15 pages
Letter to the Deaf
chapter |9 pages
Society in America
part |89 pages
Lady Elizabeth Eastlake
chapter |55 pages
Modern Painters
chapter |29 pages
Photography
part |63 pages
George Eliot (Marian Evans)
chapter |23 pages
The Modern Hep! Hep! Hep! 1
part |120 pages
Frances Power Cobbe
chapter |27 pages
What Shall We Do with Our Old Maids?
chapter |28 pages
The Rights of Man and the Claims of Brutes
chapter |43 pages
Wife-Torture in England
chapter |16 pages
Schadenfreude
part |36 pages
Eliza Lynn Linton
chapter |6 pages
The Girl of the Period
chapter |16 pages
George Eliot
chapter |10 pages
Nearing the Rapids
part |41 pages
Margaret Oliphant
chapter |37 pages
The Literature of the Last Fifty Years
part |20 pages
Isabella Bird Bishop
part |33 pages
Helen Taylor
chapter |10 pages
Women and Criticism
chapter |19 pages
The Ladies' Petition
part |22 pages
Anne Thackeray Ritchie
chapter |18 pages
Heroines and Their Grandmothers
part |18 pages
Alice Brooke Bodington
chapter |16 pages
The Importance of Race and Its Bearing on the “Negro Question”
part |75 pages
Edith Jemima Simcox
chapter |37 pages
Autobiographies
chapter |18 pages
Women's Work and Women's Wages
chapter |15 pages
The Capacity of Women
part |26 pages
Clementina Black
chapter |10 pages
The Coercion of Trade Unions
chapter |7 pages
What Is a Fair Wage?
chapter |4 pages
The Dislike to Domestic Service
part |29 pages
Mona Alison Caird
chapter |25 pages
The Morality of Marriage
part |22 pages
Sarah Grand (Frances Elizabeth Clarke McFall)
chapter |8 pages
The New Aspect of the Woman Question
chapter |10 pages
The New Woman and the Old
part |53 pages
Vernon Lee (Violet Paget)