A serious occupation : literary criticism by Victorian women writers / edited by Solveig C. Robinson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Robinson, Solveig C., 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

British literature--19th century--History and criticism.

British literature.

Women critics--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Women critics.

History.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xv, 307 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Peterborough, Ont. ; Orchard Park, N.Y. : Broadview Press, 2003.

Contents:

Characters of Intellect: Portia (1832) / Anna Jameson 1

Achievements of the Genius of Scott (December 1832) / Harriet Martineau 23

Review of Vanity Fair and Jane Eyre (December 1848) / Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake 46

People Who Do Not Like Poetry (May 1849) / Eliza Cook 74

Editor's Preface to the New Edition of Wuthering Heights (1850) / Charlotte Bronte 81

Silly Novels by Lady Novelists (October 1856) / George Eliot 88

To Novelists

and a Novelist (April 1861) / Dinah Mulock Craik 116

The Uses and Pleasures of Poetry for the Working Classes (1863) / Janet Hamilton 131

Review of Cometh Up as a Flower (April 1867) / Geraldine Jewsbury 138

Novels (September 1867) / Margaret Oliphant 144

A Remonstrance (November 1867) / Mary Elizabeth Braddon 175

On Fiction as an Educator (October 1870) / Anne Mozley 187

Browning's Poems (December 1870) / Elizabeth Julia Hasell 208

Jane Austen (August 1871) / Anne Thackeray Ritchie 234

Style and Miss Austen (December 1884) / Mary Augusta (Mrs. Humphry) Ward 254

Women's Books

A Possible Library (May 1889) / Helen Blackburn 269

Literature: Then and Now (April 1890) / Eliza Lynn Linton 277

Christina Rossetti (February 1895) / Alice Meynell 299.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1551113503

OCLC:

51042927