This volume charts the rise of professional women writers across diverse fields of intellectual enquiry and through different modes of writing in the period imm

This book examines women's art writing in the nineteenth century, challenging the idea of art history as a masculine intellectual field.

The ranks of English women writers rose steeply in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, contributing to the era’s revolutionary social movements as well as

Since the late twentieth century, there has been a strategic campaign to recover the impact of Victorian women writers in the field of English literature. Howev

This book was first published in 1999. This collection of essays by leading scholars from Britain, the USA and Canada opens up the limited landscape of Victoria