Name: British Women's Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, Volume 2
ISBN: 978-3-030-38528-6

Editors:

Adrienne E. Gavin⁰,
Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton¹

Adrienne E. Gavin
1. Department of English and Language Studies, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, UK
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Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton
1. School of Humanities, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, UK
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Looks at key texts from the George Eliot, Anna Sewell and Elizabeth Gaskell
Touches on issues as diverse as mobility, philanthropy and female desire
Looks at some lesser-studied texts in addition to texts like Black Beauty and Silas Marner

Part of the book series: British Women’s Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1840-1940 (BWWFBB, volume 2)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

Front Matter

Pages i-xxvi

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Introduction
- Adrienne E. Gavin, Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton
Pages 1-23
Part I
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 25-26
  
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2. A Decade of Experiment: George Eliot in the 1860s
  
  Margaret Harris
  
  Pages 27-41
3. ‘Duck him!’: Private Feelings, Public Interests, and Ellen Wood’s East Lynne
  
  Tara MacDonald
  
  Pages 43-56
4. ‘[Tr]ain[s] of circumstantial evidence’: Railway ‘Monomania’ and Investigations of Gender in Lady Audley’s Secret
  
  Andrew F. Humphries
  
  Pages 57-74
5. ‘There is great need for forgiveness in this world’: The Call for Reconciliation in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Sylvia’s Lovers and A Dark Night’s Work
  
  Elizabeth Ludlow
  
  Pages 75-88
6. ‘The plain duties which are set before me’: Charity, Agency, and Women’s Work in the 1860s
  
  Kristine Moruzi
  
  Pages 89-104
7. ‘[S]mothered under rose-leaves’: Violent Sensation and the Location of the Feminine in Eliza Lynn Linton’s Sowing the Wind
  
  Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton
  
  Pages 105-117
8. ‘[F]leshly inclinations’: The Nature of Female Desire in Rhoda Broughton’s Early Fiction
  
  Tamar Heller
  
  Pages 119-134
9. Crumbs from the Table: Matilda Betham-Edwards’s Comic Writing in Punch
  
  Clare Horrocks, Nickianne Moody
  
  Pages 135-148
Part II
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 149-150
  
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2. Transcending Prudence: Charlotte Riddell’s ‘City Women’
  
  Silvana Colella
  
  Pages 151-164
3. ‘[M]ute orations, mute rhapsodies, mute discussions’: Silence in George Eliot’s Last Decade
  
  Fionnuala Dillane
  
  Pages 165-182
4. ‘His eyes commanded me to come to him’: Desire and Mesmerism in Rhoda Broughton’s ‘The Man with the Nose’
  
  Melissa Purdue
  
  Pages 183-193
5. ‘[E]mphatically un-literary and middle-class’: Undressing Middle-Class Anxieties in Ellen Wood’s Johnny Ludlow Stories
  
  Alyson Hunt
  
  Pages 195-211
6. ‘Sinecures which could be held by girls’: Margaret Oliphant and Women’s Labour
  
  Danielle Charette
  
  Pages 213-227
7. ‘More like a woman stuck into boy’s clothes’: Transcendent Femininity in Florence Marryat’s Her Father’s Name
  
  Catherine Pope
  
  Pages 229-243
8. ‘I am writing the life of a horse’: Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty in the 1870s
  
  Adrienne E. Gavin
  
  Pages 245-263
9. Forging a New Path: Fraud and White-Collar Crime in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s 1870s Fiction
  
  Janine Hatter
  
  Pages 265-278

About this book

This five-volume series, British Women’s Writing From Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1840–1940, historically

contextualizes and traces developments in women’s fiction from 1840 to 1940. Critically assessing

both canonical and lesser-known British women’s writing decade by decade, it redefines the landscape

of women’s authorship across a century of dynamic social and cultural change. With each of

its volumes devoted to two decades, the series is wide in scope but historically sharply defined.

Volume 2: 1860s and 1870s continues the series by historically and culturally contextualizing Victorian

women’s writing distinctly within the 1860s and 1870s. Covering a range of fictional approaches,

including short stories, religiously inflected novels, and comic writing the volume’s 16 original essays

consider such developments as the sensation craze, the impact of new technologies, and the career

opportunities opening for women. Centrally, it reassesses key nineteenth-century female authors in

the context in which they first published while also recovering neglected women writers who helped

to shape the literary landscape of the 1860s and 1870s.

Keywords

George Eliot
Heroine
Sensation fiction
Periodical press
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Elizabeth Gaskell
Anna Sewell
Black Beauty
British and Irish Literature

Editors and Affiliations

Department of English and Language Studies, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, UK

Adrienne E. Gavin
School of Humanities, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, UK

Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton

About the editors

Adrienne E. Gavin is Emeritus Professor of English Literature and Co-founder and Honorary Director of the International Centre for Victorian Women Writers (ICVWW), Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. She is also an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Carolyn Oulton is Professor of Victorian Literature and Co-founder and Director of the International Centre for Victorian Women Writers (ICVWW), Canterbury Christ Church University, UK.

Bibliographic Information

Book Title: British Women's Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, Volume 2
Book Subtitle: 1860s and 1870s
Editors: Adrienne E. Gavin, Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton
Series Title: British Women’s Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1840-1940
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38528-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-38527-9Published: 27 August 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-38530-9Published: 27 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-38528-6Published: 26 August 2020
Series ISSN: 2523-7160
Series E-ISSN: 2523-7179
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 291
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Nineteenth-Century Literature, Fiction Literature, European Literature

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

Front Matter

Part I

Front Matter

Part II

Front Matter

About this book

Keywords

Editors and Affiliations

Department of English and Language Studies, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, UK

School of Humanities, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, UK

About the editors

Bibliographic Information

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