'Criminals, Idiots, Women and Minors'

Victorian Writing by Women on Women

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2004 | 2nd Revised edition
Broadview Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-55111-608-2 (ISBN)

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As much as fifteen percent of the essays in Victorian periodicals were by women, yet even the best of these pieces were allowed by the male dominated world of scholarship to sink from view. This anthololgy makes available again some of the best of Victorian writing by women.

Pardon me; I must seem to you so stupid! Why is the property of the woman who commits Murder, and the property of the woman who commits Matrimony, dealt with alike by your law?"

So ends the "little allegory" in conversational form with which Frances Power Cobbe opens the 1868 essay that gives this collection its title. Cobbe was a widely read essayist of remarkable lucidity and power; her pieces display incisive wit and remarkable focus as she returns repeatedly to "the woman question," but it was typical of the time that when Cobbe died she was described in the Wellesley Index to Victorian periodicals as a "miscellaneous writer."

Cobbe was not alone; as much as 15 per cent of the essays in Victorian periodicals were written by women, yet even the best of these pieces were allowed by the male-dominated world of scholarship to disappear from print. This anthology makes available again some of the best Victorian writing by women.

The second edition has been revised and updated; additions include a chronology and an essay by Frances Power Cobbe on the education of women.

Susan Hamilton, a Professor in the English Department at the University of Alberta, has written widely on Victorian women writers and Victorian culture.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
CHRONOLOGY
A NOTE ON THE TEXT

ANNA BROWNELL JAMESON (1794-1860)

“The Milliners”
Biographical Note

HARRIET MARTINEAU (1802-1876)

“Female Industry”
Biographical Note

FRANCES POWER COBBE (1822-1904)

“Celibacy v. Marriage”
“‘What Shall We Do with Our Old Maids?’”
“The Education of Women, and How it Would be Affected by UniversityExaminations”
“‘Criminals, Idiots, Women, And Minors’”
“Wife-torture in England”
Biographical Note

ELIZA LYNN LINTON (1822-1898)

“The Girl of the Period”
“The Modern Revolt”
“The Wild Women: as Politicians”
“The Wild Women: as Social Insurgents”
Biographical Note

MARGARET OLIPHANT (1828-1897)

“The Condition of Women”
“The Grievances of Women”
Biographical Note

HELEN TAYLOR (1831-1907)

“Women and Criticism”
Biographical Note

MILLICENT GARRETT FAWCETT (1847-1929)

“The Emancipation of Women”
Biographical Note

MONA CAIRD (1854-1932)

“Marriage”
“A Defence of the So-called ‘Wild Women’”
Biographical Note

Works Cited and Recommended Reading

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.7.2004
Verlagsort	Peterborough
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	418 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-55111-608-1 / 1551116081
ISBN-13	978-1-55111-608-2 / 9781551116082
Zustand	Neuware