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Tables of Contents for Women's Writing of the Victorian Period 1837-1901
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
xi
Acknowledgements
xix
Chronology
xxi
1837
Queen Victoria: from Diary
1
1
Sara Coleridge: One Face Alone
2
1
Letitia Landon (`L. E. L.'): Gifts Misused
2
1
Letitia Landon (`L. E. L.'): The Marriage Vow
3
1
1838
Anna Jameson: from Winter Studies and Summer Rambles
3
10
Harriet Martineau: from Retrospect of Western Travel
13
3
Caroline Clive: from Diary
16
2
1839
Queen Victoria: from Diary
18
1
1840
Mary Shelley: from The Poetical Works of Shelley
18
7
Queen Victoria: from Diary
25
2
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan: from Women and her Master
27
4
1842
Sarah Ellis: from The Women of England
31
4
Caroline Clive: from Diary
35
1
1843
Caroline Clive: from Diary
36
1
1844
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: L.E.L.'s Last Question
37
2
1845
Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake: from Lady Travellers
39
4
Caroline Clive: from Diary
43
1
1846
Charlotte Bronte: The Teacher's Monologue
44
2
Emily Bronte: Remembrance
46
2
1847
Sara Coleridge: from Review of Tennyson, `The Princess'
48
3
1848
Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake: from Review of `Fane Eyre'
51
6
1849
Elizabeth Gaskell: from The Last Generation in England
57
5
Geraldine Jewsbury: from Religious Faith and Modern Scepticism
62
5
Eliza Cook: from Our Women Servants
67
5
1850
Charlotte Bronte: Preface to Wuthering Heights
72
4
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Sonnets from the Portuguese XIV
76
1
1854
Barbara Bodichon: From Laws Concerning Women
76
2
Caroline Norton: from English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century
78
10
1855
George Eliot: from Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft
88
2
Margaret Oliphant: from Modern Novelists
90
6
Jane Carlyle: Budget of a Femme Incomprise
96
6
1856
George Eliot: from Silly Novels by Lady Novelists
102
6
1857
Elizabeth Gaskell: from The Life of Charlotte Bronte
108
6
1859
Garaldine Jewsbury: from Review of `Adam Bede'
114
2
1860
Florence Nightingale: from Cassandra
116
3
1861
Isbella Beeton: from The Book of Household Management
119
5
Adelaide Procter: A Woman's Last Word
124
1
Queen Victoria: from Diary
125
1
1862
Christina Rossetti: Song
126
1
1863
Hannah Cullwick: from Diary
127
2
Christina Rossetti: L. E. L.
129
1
Julia Kavanagh: from Jane Austen
130
3
Frances Anne Kemble: from Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation
133
11
Frances Anne Kemble: On the Stage
144
5
1864
Margaret Oliphant: from Autobiobraphy
149
2
1867
Ellen Johnston: from Autobiography
151
4
Ellen Johnston: A Mother's Love
155
1
1868
Eliza Lynn Linton; from La Femme Passee
156
2
Josephine Butler: from The Education and Employment of Women
158
7
1869
Josephine Butler: from An Appeal on Prostitution
165
4
Margaret Oliphant from Review of `On The Subjection of Women'
169
11
1871
Hannah Cullwick: from Diary
180
1
Frances Power Cobbe: To Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
181
1
1872
Sophia Jex Blake: from Medicine as a Profession for Women
182
6
Dinah Mulock Craik: Only a Women
188
3
1873
Sara Coleridge: from Recollections of the Early Life
191
3
Hannah Cullwick: from Diary
194
2
Emily Pfeiffer: Peace to the Odalisque, I
196
1
1874
Bertha Thomas: Latest Intelligence from the Planet Venus
197
5
1875
Isabella Bird: from The Hawaiian Archipelago
202
9
1877
Harriet Martineau: from Autobiography
211
6
Frances Power Cobbe: from Why Women Desire the Franchise
217
4
1878
Frances Anne Kemble: from Record of a Girlhood
221
2
Frances Power Cobbe: from Wife Torture in England
223
3
1879
Isabella Bird: from A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
226
7
1880
Anne Evans: Outcry
233
1
1881
Christina Rossetti: Monna Innominata, I
234
1
Edith Simcox: from George Eliot A Valedictory Article
235
5
Constance Naden: The Lady Doctor
240
2
May Probyn: Soapsuds
242
3
1886
E. Nesbit: The Wife of All Ages
245
1
Annie Besant: from The World and Its Gods
246
4
1887
May Kendall: Women's Future
250
2
1888
A. Mary F. Robinson: The Idea
252
1
1889
Clementina Black: A Working Women's Speech
252
5
Michael Field: Long Ago, LIV
257
1
1890
Mona Caird: from The Morality of Marriage
258
9
Annie Matherson: A Song for Women
267
1
1891
Michael Field: from Journal
268
4
Jane, Lady Wilde: from George Eliot
272
2
Menie Muriel Dowie: from A Girl in the Karpathians
274
7
1893
Anne Thackeray Ritchie: from Reminiscences of Julia Margaret Cameron
281
2
Eliza Lynn Linton: from Our Past and Future
283
4
Michael Field: from Journal
287
1
Jane, Lady Wilde: from Genius and Marriage
288
10
1895
Ouida: from The New Woman
298
4
Louisa Sarah Bevington: Who Made The Cake?
302
1
Margaret Oliphant: from The Anti-Mirriage League
303
7
Mary E. Coleridge: Gone
310
1
Mary E. Coleridge: To Memory
310
1
1898
Sarah Grand: from The Modern Man and Maid
310
8
1899
Margaret Oliphant: from Autobiography
318
2
1900
Sarah Grand: from The Human Quest
320
4
Ouida: from The Ugliness of Modern Life
324
5
1901
Michael Field: from Journal
329
2
Notes
331
13
Biographical notes
344
22
Bibliography
366
7
Index of authors
373
1
Index of themes
374