Discusses a wide variety of forgotten novels by Victorian women writers and argues that these once popular but now neglected works deserve greater critical attention.
Preface
Introduction by Brenda Ayres
"Not the Superiority of Belief, But Superiority of True Devotion":
Grace Aguilar's Histories of the Spirit by Miriam Elizabeth
Burstein
The Victorian Heroine Goes A-Governessing by Cecilia Wadsö
Lecaros
The Detective Maidservant: Catherine Crowe's Susan Hopley by Lucy
Sussex
Deathbeds and Didacticism: Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna and Victorian
by Mary Lenard
Class Counts: The Domestic-Professional Writer, the Working Poor
and Middle-Class Values in The Years That the Locust Hath Eaten and
The Story of a Modern Woman by Sueann Schatz
On the Face of the Waters: Flora Annie Steel and the Politics of
Feminist Imperialism by LeeAnne Richardson
Rereading the Domestic Novel: Anne Thackeray's The Story of
Elizabeth by Helen Debenham
"I am not Esther": Biblical Heroines and Sarah Grand's Challenge to
Institutional Christianity in The Heavenly Twins by Jennifer
Stolpa
Dinah Mulock Craik: Sacrifice and the Fairy-order by Robyn
Chandler
Marie Corelli: "The Story of One Forgotten" by Brenda Ayres
Bibliography
Index
BRENDA AYRES is Professor of English at Middle Georgia College. Her previous books include Dissenting Women in Dickens' Novels (1998) and Frances Trollope and the Novel of Social Change (2001), both available from Greenwood Press.
?Modern readers, especially those interested in 19th-century
literature, might be forgiven for doubting that there are many
worthy undiscovered Victorian novels; this volume should change
their minds....Recommended. Graduate-level readers and
above.?-Choice
"Modern readers, especially those interested in 19th-century
literature, might be forgiven for doubting that there are many
worthy undiscovered Victorian novels; this volume should change
their minds....Recommended. Graduate-level readers and
above."-Choice
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