Product Description: There has been a huge revival of interest in Victorian women's poetry in the last ten years, and it has led to a major reconfiguration of the English poetic landscape of the nineteenth century. This title offers a key selection of poems by 13 Victorian women poets from Christina Rosetti and Felicia Hemans to the witty, iconoclastic May Kendall...read more

Product Description: Condemned by Victorian critics as immoral, but regarded today as a novel of outstanding social insight, No Name shows William Wilkie Collins at the height of his literary powers. It is the story of two sisters, Magdalen and Norah, who discover after the deaths of their dearly beloved parents that their parents were not married at the time of their births...read more

Product Description: This text provides an anthology of Victorian poetry written by women poets. It introduces areas such as the subject-matter, sexual politics, the contemporary reception of the poems and modern feminist theories of the poetry. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This collection of twelve critical essays on women's poetry of the eighteenth century and enlightenment is the first to range widely over individual poets and to undertake a comprehensive exploration of their work. Experiment with genre and form, the poetics of the body, the politics of gender, revolutionary critique, and patronage, are themes of the collection, which includes discussions of the distinctive projects of Mary Leapor, Ann Yearsley, Helen Maria Williams, Joanna Baillie, Charlotte Smith, Anna Barbauld and Lucy Aikin...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Caroline Bowles Southey is often considered an important 19th-century writer whose work deserves to be better known. Initially famous for her prose sketches, "Chapters on Churchyards", it is her poetry which best illustrates her gifts, with her major achievement being her blank verse autobiography "The Birth-day" (1836)...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Describes the lives and work of female literary figures