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Popular Victorian women writers considers a diverse group of women writers within the Victorian literary marketplace. It looks at authors such as Ellen Wood, Mary Braddon, Rhoda Broughton and Charlotte Yonge as well as less well-known writers including Jessie Fothergill and Eliza Meteyard.
Each essay sets the individual author within her biographical and literary context and provides refreshing insights into their work. Together they bring the work of largely unknown authors and new perspectives on known authors to critical and public attention.
Accessible and informative, the book is ideal for students of Victorian literature and culture as well as tutors and scholars of the period.
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction - Kay Boardman and Shirley Jones
1. 'Works in unbroken succession': The literary career of Mary Howitt - Brian E. Maidment
2. Struggling for fame: Eliza Meteyard's principled career - Kay Boardman
3. 'Almost always two sides to a question': The novels of Jessie Fothergill - Helen Debenham
4. 'All-sufficient to one another'?: Charlotte Yonge and the family chronicle - Valerie Sanders
5. 'Worlds not realised': The work of Louisa Molesworth - Jane Darcy
6. 'One wing clipped': The imaginative flights of Juliana Horatia Ewing - Jennifer H. Litster
7. Writing for the million: The enterprising fiction of Ellen Wood - Marie Riley
8. Behind the scenes, before the gaze: Mary Braddon's theatrical world - Valerie Pedlar
9. 'LOVE': Rhoda Broughton, writing and re-writing romance - Shirley Jones