Mathilde Blind : late-Victorian London and the woman of letters / James Diedrick (University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville and London).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Diedrick, James, 1951- author.

Series:

Victorian literature and culture series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Blind, Mathilde, 1841-1896.

Blind, Mathilde.

Blind, Mathilde, 1841-1896--Political and social views.

Blind, Mathilde, 1841-1896--Criticism and interpretation.

Women authors, English--19th century--Biography.

Women authors, English.

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

Women critics.

Feminists--Great Britain--19th century--Biography.

Feminists.

Political and social views.

Criticism and interpretation.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Biographies.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xix, 313 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2016.

Summary:

"A critical biography of the British poet Mathilde Blind (1841-1896)--a free-thinking radical feminist in late-Victorian London. Diedrick underscores the importance of Blind's poetry and her critical writings (her work on Shelley, biographies of George Eliot and Madame Roland, and her translations of Feuerbach and Bashkirtseff) for the literature and culture of the fin de siècle"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Chronology

The making of a cosmopolitan: 1841-1867

Romancing Shelley and others: 1868-1870

A pioneering female aesthete: 1871-1872

Translating Strauss, traveling in Scotland: 1873-1874

Freethinkers and feminists: 1874-1881

Biographer, novelist, polemical poet: 1882-1887

A leading new woman: 1888-1893

"But a bird of passage": 1893-1896.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-304) and index.

ISBN:

9780813939315

0813939313

OCLC:

970660864