Victorian Women Writers and the Woman Question [Hardcover]

This 1999 collection of essays focuses on women writers popular in their own time but forgotten or neglected by literary history.This collection of essays focuses attention on a number of Victorian women writers popular in their own time but forgotten or neglected by literary history, from Margaret Oliphant and Charlotte Yonge to Mary Ward, Marie Corelli, 'Ouida' and E. Nesbit. Particular emphasis is given to writings concerned with 'the woman question'. Discussions of marriage, matriarchy and divorce, satire, suffragette writing, writing for children, and links between literature and art illuminate the complex cultural and literary roles, and the engaging contributions, of Victorian women writers.This collection of essays focuses attention on a number of Victorian women writers popular in their own time but forgotten or neglected by literary history, from Margaret Oliphant and Charlotte Yonge to Mary Ward, Marie Corelli, 'Ouida' and E. Nesbit. Particular emphasis is given to writings concerned with 'the woman question'. Discussions of marriage, matriarchy and divorce, satire, suffragette writing, writing for children, and links between literature and art illuminate the complex cultural and literary roles, and the engaging contributions, of Victorian women writers.This collection of essays focuses attention on a number of Victorian women writers popular in their own time but forgotten or neglected by literary history, from Margaret Oliphant and Charlotte Yonge to Mary Ward, Marie Corelli, Ouida and E. Nesbit. Particular emphasis is given to writings concerned with the woman question. Discussions of marriage, matriarchy and divorce, satire, suffragette writing, writing for children, and links between literature and art illuminate the complex cultural and literary roles, and the engaging contributions, of Victorian women writers.1. Responding to the woman question: re-reading non-canonical Victorian women novelists Nicola Diane Thompson; 2. Marriage and thlã*